Kitchen Light for Cabin Possibility

I was able to find online a picture of a light we saw that we liked.  However we are getting a quote to see what it would cost to customize it a bit.  If we decide to go with it, I'll go into more detail.  We want to see what the price is going to be.  As I've said before, we're trying to be economical - gonna have to get used to not eating out as much, passing by the blac label clothing and cutting back on traveling (except to the cabin of course!).

Here's the ceiling fan we picked for the "great room" (which isn't all that great because it's kind small for a great room, but, whatever).  They didn't have this fan at our Lowe's down by us, so I was surprised but very happy to spot this at the Lowe's in Glens Falls:

It's kind of hard to see, but there's a cool Adirondack design around the top.  Oh and while I'm at it, I might as well show you the cabinets we chose.  They're very inexpensive, but they have a nice Adirondack look and I am happy with our choice.  Our kitchen is a small L shape, so it should be pretty easy to put together a nice kitchen with the different components Lowe's offers:

We saw some cool twig-like cabinet hardware - I'm not sure if this is exactly what we picked, but if it isn't, it's very similar:

Anyway, these are some of the things we picked - what do you think? 

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Hey, That's My Seat!

On one of the recent and MANY very hot days we have had lately, I was trying to put off putting on the A/C for as long as possible.  So I brought my computer over to this chair that is within the breeze of our ceiling fan.  As you can see I had this whole setup going with the stools, my cup of water, yada, yada.  I got up to use the bathroom, and this is what I found when I got back.  Of course.  Kittehs always take the best seat in the house.  Not sure if she was planning on using my computer to look up fat burner reviews, or LOL Cats or I Can Haz Cheezeburger or what, but let me tell you, nothin' was getting in between me and the breeze from that ceiling fan, I don't care how cute and innocent she looked, LOL!  I let her stay long enough to snap the picture and then she was promptly evicted, 'cause THAT'S MY SEAT!

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Speaking of the Garden...

I keep making fun of our garden, but hey, look!  We grew those green beans!  Boy, were they good, too!

And look - we grew that zucchini!  We put olive oil and salt and pepper on it and my husband grilled it up on the BBQ.  Between the two of us, we ate the whole thing!  (Our daughter didn't like it.)

If we keep actually getting edible vegetables from our garden, that ought to reduce belly fat, eh?

Tonight my daughter brought in our first "crop" of lettuce, so we will probably have salad tomorrow night.  We'd better enjoy it, because I'm not so sure how much more lettuce we'll get.  Maybe we'll get enough for at least one more salad.  We struggled with the lettuce.  Our peppers are finally flowering, though there aren't many plants that survived.  The tomato plants look like they are doing well.  Maybe by next week I might have my first ripe tomato?  A week after that no doubt I'll be back here asking y'all what the heck to do with tons of tomatoes, LOL!  (Mine are just "regular" tomatoes - I don't know that they're good for making sauce out of....???)

If you have a garden, how is yours going?  What do *you* do with a million tomatoes?   I like tomato sandwiches, but I'm not sure how many of those I can eat...

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More Details From our Trip to the Adirondacks

I took this pic when we stopped in Lake George.

 As I mentioned in my last post, we traveled up north to meet with our builder to "pick out stuff".  A huge blessing was that we did not have to drag our daughter with us.  She would have been bored. to. death.  Fortunately for us, my one sister-in-law very graciously agreed to take our daughter up to her place and extend the sleepover our daughter and niece were already having at Grandma's.  They slept over Grandma's Saturday and Sunday, then I brought them up to my sister-in-law's on Monday, and my sister-in-law was so nice to have our daughter stay over Monday and Tuesday night so we could meet the builder without distractions.  Plus our daughter was absolutely happy as a clam to have the opportunity to spend so much time with her cousin.  So, I didn't end up getting my Sweet Pea back until today!  It was so weird without her around!  Anyway...

When we had our present house built our builder chose a lot of things for us.  This time, we get to pick out pretty much everything - even stuff we couldn't care less about, like bathtub drains!  LOL!  It has definitely been an educational experience.  For example, I didn't know that when you buy a toilet, it doesn't come with a seat!  You choose that separately!  Good thing the builder was with us to tell us that, or I think we'd have been mighty surprised to have toilets with no seats, ha ha!

We still have a few outstanding things to choose, one of them being flooring and another is a screen door.  We want to get some kind of wooden Adirondack-y kind of screen door.  I have to hunt that down, but I was thinking something like this:

Just an idea.  We also are choosing a special lighting fixture for over the kitchen table.  We're waiting on the quote for that.  If I can find a picture online, I'll show that to you soon.

Anyway, we're trying very hard not to overspend our allowances.  If we're not careful, we won't even need the best fat burner pill - we'll be so broke all we'll be eating is bread and water, LOL!  Oh, and the bountiful harvest from our Thousand Dollar Garden (rolling my eyes), ha ha!

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