Laynie's Ramblings: Designing the kitchen and meeting Goldberg

Things are moving along quite well. We went down last weekend to meet with the cabinet guy and to attend a graduation party (fish fry) for a couple of our friends’ kids. We had a great time at the party and met a lot of new people. Being raised that you never go to a party empty handed I cooked up about 6-7 dozen tamales and Jay made salsa. The fish was really good, and I think the tamales were a hit because they were all gone in about 15 minutes. Belinda and I do make good tamales!! The salsa lasted through the night, but nary a drop was left when the party ended. The most entertaining parts of the party for me were the two babies I got to play with and a little duck name Goldberg. Goldberg was the only animal allowed to roam around the party and he entertained the kids while eating anything given to him. He was especially fond of rum cake (who can blame him it was yummy). The dogs were penned up and were going crazy wanting to get at him. He seemed to know he was safe from them would venture fairly close to the pen as if to taunt them. Goldberg was going to go home with one of the guests who has a lake and other ducks for Goldberg to make his new family. All and all it was a great evening and going home was easy, hopped in the gator and rode through the pasture back to the cabin.


see Goldberg sitting between Julie's feet

I met with AJ, the cabinetmaker to design my kitchen cabinets. I had spent a number of hours on the Internet looking at different ideas for drawers, cabs and layouts. I think I had printed out over 50 different ideas. He must have thought I was a crazy person. We waded through my pictures and talked about what things were important to me. Finally we had a game plan and he said he would have a 3D plan for me the following week. I have decided on painted cabinets instead of stained wood, lots of drawers and a place for my cookbooks, S&P collection and all sorts of specialized drawers and cupboards. A kitchen where I can find all my utensils- what a concept! We also designed the bathroom, utility closets and mud room. Next step for me will be picking the flooring. Now that ist going to be a daunting task. There are so many different flooring options and so many options within each of the flooring types. So much easier when I was working and the choices got narrowed down to what was the best vinyl for the price and apartment carpet, is just that apartment carpet, pick the color and move on….

A few current pictures of the house -