9.5

Today marks Seppo and my 9.5 years together. Whoa. Here’s to 95 more. 😀 By then, we’ll both resemble the professor in Futurama.

House craziness

I will leave it to Seppo to post the details of the stone path he build in his backyard, with the help of Sean and and a coworker/friend. All I can say is that it’s really fantastic. It’s beautiful, functional, fun, and graceful. And he did it all in one week! Yowza!

On Saturday, we spent something like 28-30 combined work-hours cleaning up the house. About a third of that time was spent in the kitchen. We reorganized the available counter space, magically creating extra space from nowhere and making better use of the back half of the room. I spent a good hour or so hunched over and wrestling with the reciprocating saw, so I have some weird back and leg aches.

I spent a little time with the Lowe’s kitchen planner(inspired by the Helavas’ kitchen renovation project) and found that while the IKEA kitchen designer is great for doing the actual layout with very precise measurements (and perhaps/probably getting the cabinets there), the Lowe’s planner is great for the overall project management side of things, which is quite welcome. We plan on going this weekend to check out their planning kit and just look around.