Spring is in the air...somewhere...

Hello! As you can see, spring is coming. We've been having beautiful sunny days. It's still cold, but it doesn't feel so bad when the sun is shining!
I've got some updated kitchen shots for you. The other day we found some tin signs that matched the colours in our kitchen perfectly, and they really added a lot to the room.

Yesterday we went to an auction and bought a bunch of really cool stuff to go in the house - check it out:

The largest, colourful game there we are going to turn into a clock for the kitchen. And now that curling is ending, we can take up croquet with our awesome antique croquet set with solid wood balls. You should have seen all the stuff we DIDN'T get!

Today we tiled the countertop in the kitchen. It wasn't as hard as we we thought it was going to be. It wasn't exactly easy, but I had totally psyched myself out that it was going to be a huge hassle and in the end it really wasn't that bad. We rented the tile cutter from Home Hardware and had it done in about four hours. Of course, we still have to grout it, seal it, caulk it, and edge it, BUT it's looking good already.

Soon we can start on the island, and then we will need to do the doors and shelves. The moulding is up, but it still needs paint, although it is all primed and ready to go. Tomorrow is Jai's birthday, so we would like to get the grout on, but we may just end up taking a lazy day instead. We'll have to see.
We went to the pub on Friday night and saw the "Randi Grandi Band." They play carribbean-style covers. It was pretty fun. Jai was saying it was like a scene from "Northern Exposure" or something, in the best possible way. There was all sorts of different people there, but everybody knew each other, and they were all having a great time - grandmas and hippies and bank managers.