A wet weekend

Hunting season (bow hunting) started last weekend.  After bow hunting season comes rifle season (early November) which lasts until January.  This means that until he bags his limit (two doe, one spike buck, one antlered buck), DH is out hunting every morning and evening of the weekend.  While I am thankful that I have a DH whose hobby can provide food for us, said hobby seriously cuts into our home remodeling time.  ;-)   Oh well.

DH harvested two doe on Saturday morning and he worked quickly to get both doe field dressed so that he could take them into town to the meat processor before they closed at noon.  Just when I was down to the last pound of venison from last year, our freezer will get replenished!  (Two deer down, two to go.)

On Sunday, we got rain!  It rained about 1.5" at our house.  In this drought, we'll take all we can get!

I've got about 90% of our kitchen stuff back in its proper place in our kitchen.  DH got the last drawer installed.  Before we can declare the kitchen "done," he has to rebuild a cabinet (which I may have to paint or polyurethane) and make drawers for said cabinet, install the trim molding, and lay the new flooring.  I am hoping that we get all this done by the end of October as we'll need to cut and stack firewood in November.

And I'm posting my progress on "Bone Cheeks" which isn't very much because all that I stitched on Saturday morning while DH was hunting and field dressing, I had to frog.  It was a very extended frog visit and not at all appreciated.

Oh, and my Aggies beat DH's Red Raiders on Saturday.  Gig 'em!

LoneStar 

Woo Pig misery

What a weekend for football.  DH's Texas Tech Red Raiders did well and beat Kansas.  My Aggies lost to the Woo Pigs (Arkansas).  

And the Cowboys...oh my!  I think I've got that paper bag for my head left over from last year here somewhere...

DH's hunting weekend was a bust which made him grumpy.  His mood did not improve when he learned that one of the guys at work got an eight-point buck on Saturday.  But there are many weekends left to hunt, so we'll fill up our freezer eventually, and I'll have a happy hunter around the house.  Grumpy ones are a bummer.

DH is still doing battle with the raccoons.  One gnawed through the top cover of his deer corn feeder, so he had to do a "weirdly" repair.  Then he caught another raccoon digging corn out of the feeder from the bottom.  That raccoon won't ever do that again.  Next year, DH will get an all-metal feeder with a better varmint cover.  At least we haven't had them waking us up at night trying to get in the trash lately.  Darn varmints.

DH got all the doors put on the kitchen cabinets and we are in business!  I only have one drawer left to polyurethane as DH just made it on Sunday afternoon.  DH still has another small cabinet to rebuild and make a drawer for, and we still have trim molding to install and the floor to put down.  But at least the kitchen is much more usable and stuff is making its way back into the kitchen from the den.  YAY!

We ended up buying an eight-foot counter top to finish out our long counter top.  DH was going to use some solid maple counter top that he had in his shop, but it would have taken him about a day to get it to work.  Right now, his time is more valuable than that.  And we also got to thinking - once we get done with the kitchen, DH will get back to working on the utility room remodel.  One of the things I want to do is unstack my washer and dryer and put a counter top over them.  So we bought enough counter top to do this and to finish up the kitchen; we cut two feet off it and will have plenty left over for the utility room.

I think I put maybe eight stitches in "Bone Cheeks" this weekend.  Hopefully I'll have some time to work on it this week.  Mostly I'm working on getting all the kitchen stuff back in the kitchen.


LoneStar

'Twas the night before...

...the start of bowhunting season, and my kitchen was piled with hunting paraphernalia.  DH got up this morning at the ridiculous hour of 5:00 a.m. and went out to his tree stand to hunt.  He puts all his stuff in the kitchen so he can get dressed without waking me up too much.  He saw six deer, but couldn't get a shot.  He is out right now on an evening hunt.  I hope he gets a deer as I'm down to four pounds of venison left in the freezer from last year.

I've been a polyurethaning machine this week and have finally finished as I got the last coat on the cabinet doors this afternoon.  After DH gets the doors hung back on the cabinets tomorrow, I can start moving my kitchen stuff out of the den and back into the kitchen where it belongs.

I haven't stitched much this week.  Emma got a haircut.  It wore her out so much that she felt compelled to take her ball to bed for a nap.

LoneStar

WIP "Bone Cheeks"

We're really enjoying having our kitchen sink back.  And the bathroom sink is once again just a bathroom sink.  ;-)   DH got the cabinet doors fit to the cabinets.  Now I will polyurethane both the cabinets and the door fronts before we put everything back in the cabinets.  

Sometime in the past, a previous owner of our house stripped most of the paint off the lower cabinets and put some brown stain on them. They left them that way with no protective coating of polyurethane or lacquer.  Which means they had a lot of water and food stains on them.  I am going to scrub clean both the doors and the drawers within an inch of their lives and then polyurethane them.  I've already done the drawers and now must do the doors.  They still look pretty ratty but at least they will be easier to keep clean.  Here is a picture where you can see the polyurethaned drawers next to the unpolyurethaned doors.

And here is where I am on "Bone Cheeks."

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Happy dancin'

No, I didn't finish "Bone Cheeks."  But DH did get the sink installed and the water hooked back up - it works!  WE HAVE OUR KITCHEN SINK BACK!

Determining the placement.

Cutting the hole in the countertop.

DONE! (Do ya see the running water?!)

LoneStar

Are we sinked yet?

No.  We are still sinkless in the kitchen, but we're getting close!  

DH got the face frames done on the cabinets.  He got the countertop pieces joined together after a trip to Lowe's to buy special glue as the glue that came with the joinery kit set up about 3.2 seconds after we mixed it.  Here's a progress picture:

You'll notice that the long countertop is not long enough.  We actually needed a 12-foot countertop, but Lowe's and Home Depot don't sell them that long; 10 feet is their in-stock maximum.  Well, they do sell 12-footers if you want to special order one and wait three weeks for it at an exorbitant price.  We decided that we didn't want to do that.  We have a old piece of solid maple countertop in DH's shop.  So DH will use that to extend the long countertop to its proper length.  Creative scrounging and repurposing - it works for us. 

Here is a picture of the inside of one of the cabinets.  Those vertical slots will hold my cookie sheets and shallow pans neatly upright instead of one big crazily leaning heap.  Cool, eh?  DH will fit and mount the cabinet doors after we get the sink installed. 

DH was using the nail gun a lot on the face frames.  Emma hates the nail gun.  At one point, DH was leaning way over nailing a small piece and Emma came over and nibbled on his nose after barking at him a few times!  She also pawed at the nail gun and growled at it a lot.  Silly dog.

Hey! Stop using that infernal contraption!

We might have gotten farther along on the kitchen if we hadn't stopped to watch the Dallas Cowboys game on Sunday afternoon.  But you gotta do what you gotta do.  And it was a great game!  Go Cowboys!!

"Bone Cheeks" is turning out to be a really fun stitch.  I'll post a picture of my progress this weekend sometime.

LoneStar

"Liberty Lane" finished!

I put the last stitch in "Liberty Lane" by Country Cottage Needleworks this afternoon.  I stitched it on 28 count tea-dyed Monaco with DMC.  

I used RitaD's color conversions:  420 to 420, 640 to 3031, 937 to 3051, 3023 to 611, 3031 to 3371, 3347 to 3052, B5200 to 3865, GAST Liberty to 3750, GAST Rhubarb to 3777.

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