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What a pleasant surprise to see a new post! We have been fixing all of the things that don't work right in our home. The ones we can change anyway. It's made our home so much more comfortable and relaxed. We started repainting the inside of our house last year, and it's made such a wonderful difference! But we did run into one problem.

I've wanted to turn my kitchen into one with a 1930s' decor from pictures I've seen from that time. Originally, my kitchen was going to be blue cabinets, light walls, and red accents, with a little bit of yellow here and there. (Instead of brown cabinets, brown walls, brown floor.) But the light wall color I chose did not work at all once it was actually on the walls, and I had to have a big rethink about the kitchen colors. I looked and looked at more pictures from that period, and I finally decided to switch to soft yellow cabinets, green walls, and the red accents. I've been buying red kitchen reproduction pieces for years to spread out the cost (1930s' red bread box, red Fiesta pitcher, red mixing bowl to hold fruit, red and white canisters, things like that), so I was very pleased to see that the red, yellow, and light green combination was a popular color choice back then. We have so much going on with getting the house right this year that we're only doing the wall repainting right now. I'm not sure when we'll get to the cabinets, but when we do, we're taking out the cabinet thing that the refrigerator is in. Like the crown molding we took off the cabinets, that fridge cabinet is too much for the small space of the kitchen. When we took off the crown molding, it opened the kitchen right up and gave the cabinets nice clean lines. The fridge cabinet is glued to other cabinets on one side, and the thought of removing the glue is daunting, but I'm going to do it. :) I've never seen a fridge cabinet in the 1930s' pictures. 

Tuesday the roofers are coming to replace the roof and the siding.

I got two small zucchinis before the bugs found the plant, but I've since planted plants in two other spots. We left the first zucchini there as a decoy. I don't know how well growing the zucchini vertically would have gone because the bugs found it too soon, but the winter squash on the arch trellis is just beautiful! No bugs either. Our potatoes are starting to harvest and we're going to have pounds and pounds of them! Our tomatoes started well but then it turned hot, so they are going to wait until fall when it's cooler to produce any more. My corn is growing, but my watermelon plant is just sitting there and not growing. It's perfectly healthy-looking but I guess it has a lot to think about right now. 

I look forward to seeing what everyone else has been up to. :)

Oh, yes, we had a wonderful Fourth of July because about 11 at night it started pouring rain and no one could set off fireworks until the wee hours. ;-) 

You are wise to make things user friendly for your height. I am short, also, and reaching things are frustrating. My grandmother was 4ft 10inches, so my grandfather, who was a carpenter, ripped out the kitchen of their home and built it entirely for her height.

Have a nice week.

Glenda

It has been so hot here that I’ve been sewing and cleaning. I’m also working on repairing and editing things that don’t serve me any longer. We have finally gotten rain and I hope cooler temps this week so I can garden. Today I made pickled beets. It’s time for me to set fall seeds and I hope to do that this week. Also need to clean the stable and pastures. How can anyone ever get bored at home!? lol