Green House Homestead: Catching Up

There are no excuses as to why I haven't been around here. So I'll just start catching you up.

Valentine's Day was nice as Donald brought home tulips that were just about ready to bloom. They were lovely:

I really love the container they came in. Now, the tulips have come and gone. Only thing left of them are the shriveled up stems that I need to cut off and put the bulbs away until next year. Or, I can put them in the refrigerator for about six weeks and they will bloom again. Maybe I'll do that.

I don't know if I mentioned we have been, okay, not me so much except as a supervior, working on the inside of the motor home. We started with just the tv cabinet because we had an old tv in there which worked just fine as long as the, oh, what's that box called that we all had to run out and buy for our old tv in order to watch it digital{?}, anyway, we had one in the motor home until it went ka-poop. So, we were talking about getting a flat screen for it, therefore, we had to take down the cabinet the old tv sat in.

That cabinet is gone now. No tv there yet! Then the shower was leaking so Donald tore the whole bathroom out including the floor and re-did everything. He put self sticking tiles in the bathroom and I'm not at all happy with it. He also put a floating floor down in the motor home which was left over from a room we did in the house and because he put a couple of staples in the floor where it met with the rug, it has separated a little. Donald's not happy with that, but it doesn't bother me. :) Now, I've decided to take out all the carpet and just replace it all with the floating floor.

New Bathroom Floor

Where the carpet and floor meet.

Here's the kitchen-I bought smart tiles at Home Depot to put on the wall behind the stove and sink

These are the tiles I chose. Smart tiles are heat proof; sorta plastic, but they are peel and stick and you can cut them with scissors. Easy

Here are the 'cracks' in the floor. Floating floors are not suppose to be nails or staples because they 'float' but since Donald nailed down the rug with the floor it started to separate. It really bothers him! LOL I'm all for just filling in the cracks.

Renovation realities in the house--haha. About a year ago our 1970's in wall oven gave up the ghost. We had some problems with it in the past, but Donald was always able to get parts. But, there comes a time when it is just vintage and parts can't be bought for it anymore. We were slightly looking for a new oven when sales ads came out or when were in the stores, but the cheapest one we could find was $1, 399.00. Wow. Now, one day we were in Lowe's looking around when Donald came upon a stainless steel wall oven, display model, the last one of it's kind {so the sign said} for $876
.00. Seriously? Plus, we got 10% off that! Here's some advice for anyone near our age..never, ever think you can remember measurements of anything in your home no matter how many times you measure it or how long you've lived in your home. Haha. The 'new' oven measured 29" opening and I was so sure that's what our old oven opening was. So, as not to pass up a great deal we went ahead and arranged to have it sold to us (we didn't have the money at the time; had to come back next day); then when we got home, we measured the opening and it was a 26" opening! Uh-oh. Then we had to brain storm how we were gonna extend the cabinet in order to install the new oven. Here's what we came up with: