Do we live here?

A week ago this past Monday the start of cool things began in the Eborall household. After four years of contemplative thought (HA!) we got a new refridgerator! I can hear you gasping over the nano waves of internet space. Our last new fridge was 16 years ago. That one was bought for our first house. We used it for 12 years before leaving it when we moved from Owensville to here. Since then we had a really crappy basic fridge that had wire shelves and a tilted bottom shelf so that everything fell out when you opened it and then my sister, Carol, very kindly lent us her old fridge to use until we could save up for a new one. It was mustard yellow and although better than the old one, it was an energy hog (heat came off of it) and whenever you opened it up, something would fall out of the door.

The time had come and we were ready. We now worship at the foot of our new Kenmore. Particularly Carter - he loves and I mean LOVES this new appliance. We have little black toe prints on the inside of the freezer from him trying to climb in. It has a filtered water and ice dispenser. Everything now needs ice and or water in it. You thirsty? Carter is your go to boy. He'll hook you up. I mean it.

It is sooooo nice to have this lovely fridge. Things don't fall out, it's cool to the touch and it's super duper energy efficient. The old hog is in the garage waiting to be picked up and transported to camp; I can't wait to see what happens to our electric bill when it's no longer spinning the meter around at warp speed.

My brother Tom came last Friday and hooked up the water line for the filtered water and ice. He's fabulous! After he spent most of the day doing that, he then helped me install a fake wood floor in the foyer. It's vinyl resilient flooring (sound super duper cool and extra fancy, eh?). You can get it completely wet and it won't rot it - well, surely we will put this to the test! I think it looks splendiferously fantastic and I might just put this down in the kitchen sometime within the next year.

But wait, Karen, you say. Love the "wood" but is that your carpet? I don't remember it being so lush and so speckled...... It's not our old carpet, yes, it's hard to imagine, but we actually got new carpet for the living room:

It's a shag - take me back to the 70's please - and it's magnificent! It's a cream with a tan and brown braid in it - to hopefully hide kid stains, dog stains and Grandad stains. :~) We upgraded our pad as well so it not only looks good, but boy does it feel good. The carpet installers said we got really good carpet and the best padding. Next room for carpet will be the dining room which looked bad before but now looks super bad next to the living room. Luckily it's a remnant size so hopefully, maybe, if the stars align, we'll get it replaced this fall and maybe we'll paint the dining room as well (I know, scary thoughts).

What's left? Painting our bedroom, making new curtains for that room; painting the kids bathroom; new floor for the kitchen (badly needed right behind dining room); OH and finish up the living room. I actually hope to have the living room (started two or was that three years ago) finished before back to school. All that's needed is some paint touching up (notice big white spot by chair and fireplace in above photo) and some new blinds. Still unable to decide about any window treatments other than blinds.