April 18, 2008

  • Lee's Summit Quilt Guild Quilt Show

    Today and tomorrow is my quilting guild's annual quilt show.  Last night I joined about twenty members and a couple husbands to help set up the PVC pipe quilt frames.  It only took about an hour and a half, plus I enjoyed talking to the members while we worked.  I was impressed by how well organized the quilt-show-powers were.

    This morning we delivered the quilts we had signed up to display.  Only the Asian Aspirations challenge quilts were displayed at 8:30 a.m., but they surely are beautiful.  I think my challenge quilt is the only one without any red in it; is that good or bad?

    Now to more mundane issues.  We're going to get a new oven and a stove.  The current Jenn-Air models (which we did not choose and are living up to their reputation for a lack of reliability) have several features that no longer work; the worse problem is that the oven thermostat is all messed up.  The new appliances we've chosen at Factory Direct Appliance also cost much less than their list prices.

    If a double oven will fit in the space where the oven and microwave are now, we're going to get the double oven.  Oh, bliss!  Meals will be so much easier when I can be using two ovens at different temperatures at once.  Also, we are buying a smooth top cooktop.  No more messy drip pans and burners!  Plus we will have four burners instead of two and a nearly useless grill (because no one wants to clean it up).  It is embarrassing how deliriously happy I am to think about preparing Christmas dinner with four burners available at once.

    Keep your fingers crossed that the double oven will fit!  People from the store are coming on Wednesday to check our kitchen out to make sure the appliances will fit.

    Also, in other home improvement news, the construction of the steps to the lake has been delayed on account of rain.  If the weather is good, the steps will be put in next week.  Kayaking will become so much easier because we won't have to carry the kayaks so far.  I have high hopes that our children will come here and enjoy the lake on the weekends this summer; maybe we can spend post-church Sunday afternoons here.  Even Marisol is planning to be home this summer, so the whole family can be together.  We are so fortunate that my children live in the area.

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