sawdust gets in your eyes
Only one taker on the cover flats? Really? Well, all right. But the offer still stands, if there are any late-comers out there. And tell your friends about it, in case they want to pop over & grab one!Didn't get a heck of a lot done this weekend because of a little "home improvement" project. A few weeks ago, one of the handles on the kitchen faucet popped off & was not replaceable, so I've been without hot water. (Turns out that teapot can come in handy for heating more than just tea water! :-)) But the kitchen has been needing a new sink for about a decade, anyway, so it was a good excuse to start shopping around.
So yesterday, the plumber came to install everything. New cabinets, too, since the other sink had just been attached to the wall. The poor guy was here until 6am. I kid you not. Yeah, Daylight Savings Time played a small part, but mostly it was hours upon hours of hard work. He didn't have to stay that long...I wasn't holding him hostage or anything!...but once he got started, he said he just wanted to keep going, so I let him. I even went to bed around midnight & told him to wake me if he needed anything or when he was finished.
And here it is...
That's about the best photo I could get, considering it's almost 10pm, & the battery on my camera kept saying it was dead, even tho the little power monitor claimed it was still half-charged. :-P You're also going to have to trust me when I say the old sink & set-up was much worse. This is Good Housekeeping or Better Homes & Gardens material in comparison. :-)
My favorite part, of course, is the faucet. It's so nice. It pulls out & can be turned to a finer spray to clean vegetables & such. It also has its own soap dispenser--which I loved in theory, but discovered this morning when I went to fill the darn thing that it's probably going to be a pain in the butt. It's waaay back there at the back of the cabinet, & you have to crack your head into the bottom of the sink at least twice to reach it. LOL Still, it beats a slimy soap dish that seems to need cleaned every five minutes.
And as long as he was down there, I had him install a water filtration system, too. It's just a small, under the sink version, but I love the idea of having cleaner water, without all those chemicals the water companies add. I'm going to use it for drinking, cooking, the cats (of course!), watering plants, etc. But it has a separate faucet so I don't have to use it for dishes or scrubbing the floor. (Yeah, like I spend so much time scrubbing the floor. LOL)
So that was my weekend. I did get my synopsis for FORTUNE'S FORBIDDEN WOMAN written, & am now working to polish it so I can send it off to my editor when she returns from a weekend conference. And tomorrow, I think I'll post an article I wrote a while back for my RWA Chapter--"Writing a Kick-Butt Synopsis That Will Sell"--for those of you who may be writing yourself & are interested in that sort of thing.
Until then, have a good night!
