Attencioni! Attencioni!!

I can barely contain my excitement as I type this. Stefan just called and….OUR COUNTER IS BEING INSTALLED ON FRIDAY!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!Just when we started to wonder if it wasn’t going to happen at all, Dino came through. He really must have been riding their...

The proud owner of a new coffee machine

I have to admit that I am not really a major coffee drinker. While I do enjoy a good cup of coffee (with plenty of cream and sugar to accompany…and perhaps some caramel flavoring…yum) I do not generally make myself coffee on a regular basis. I think we...

Still waiting on the counter

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might recall that we are still living without a counter top in our kitchen. You didn’t miss its arrival or anything like that – it still simply is not here.We ordered granite counters from an Italian...

Painting kitchen cabinets

We have a bunch of kitchen cabinets from the old kitchen sitting in the barn, in what will one day become the climbing hall. We’ve talked about using part of them in the pig stalls area, which you pass through to get to the climbing hall. Perhaps using the small...

The yuppie in us loves this

We eat a lot of pasta and there is nothing like fresh pasta. So we figure that an investment into a pasta machine wouldn’t be such a bad idea. But we are picky and if we buy something, we want it to be something we’re going to love and get the most out of...