I have made a lot more progress this week on finishing the kitchen.  I got the cuboards stained and finished and they look so nice.  I did cheat and buy two new ones to replace the water damaged ones.  You can read the whole sordid details here.

In short we had to pull all the cuboards out, the flooring, subflooring, floor joists and replace half of one wall.  Stupid dishwasher was leaking.  Here are a few observations I will make after doing all this.

Floor joists and subfloor under kitchens, baths and laundry rooms should be pressure treated lumber, as well as the subflooring.  Trust me, it’s worth the extra cash…

If you sandwish particle board between sheets of plywood you end up with a big flat sponge…then suddenly without seeing a single drop of water, the whole floor caves in.

So, we got that fixed and the kitchen sort of set back up fairly quick, but it’s been avoided long enough.  I’ve just been too tired/lazy to work on it.  But I rebuilt the one cuboard, and finally caved and just bought two new ones since they were small and not that expensive.  Now they don’t quite match but I just don’t care.  They look good so it’s enough.

Next I put the top on, and then backerboard and start laying tile.  Enough boring stuff, for now though.

Lambs are dropping in on us every few days – We have a really fun little theme this year – ewes get named for Mixed drinks and rams get names of liquers.  It’s been a really fun theme!

Three Ring Mimosa!

Sire is Jerome, dam is Tassell.  This is a moorit Smirslet Sokket ewe lamb.

Next up was Raspberry, who gave us this delightful little ewe lamb with our ram Liam (He was the santa sheep on a front page once)

Three Ring Raspberry Daiquiri

She looks very much like her grand sire Minwawe Lariat.  She is a lack Yuglet Ilget Kraiget.  I love the Shetland names for the markings.  Such fun!

Our First twins from Totter and Liam

Three Ring Buttered Rum and Three Ring Smirnoff

We were really pleased to have three ewes and only one ram since the last two years have been ram years!

Then Sparkle gave us this little sweet girl on Beau’s birthday

Three Ring Mai-Tai

She is a sweet little dear, very friendly.  Yesterday Maria gave us another lamb, but this one was a ram, I know I’de get one eventually

Three Ring Wild Turkey

That’s all I’ve got so far, but I have one due today or tomorrow, and another due on Monday.