Before & After! or The Wall!

Yesterday was a great day and so was today. Yesterday I decided to remodel our kitchen, because I love Carol's awesome kitchen and I want ours to look like hers or at least get close to it. So, after taking down the tin on one wall, which we had put up over ten years ago, I went outside and started chopping 1"x4" boards and with Tony's help we finished one wall and I love the way the pine boards look, even though they aren't like the beautiful 2"x12"'s in Carol's house . Here are the before and after pictures.

Like I said earlier, today has been great, too, because our dear friend Patty, from Florida, came out to visit us before flying back to the sunshine state tomorrow. "OMG, Nancy!" Patty said, as she got out of her rental car, "I love your pink writing cabin! It is so adorable." And I had to agree with her, because it really is. Then we went inside the cabin, sat down on the couches and started catching up with each others news.

During my fun visit with her, we laughed about her latest trip, over the ocean, to Venice, to attend a week-long culinary cooking school, her fun loving Florida friends that she adores—that I wish I could meet and how life has been treating us. And when my back started aching from laughing so much, I invited her to go up to the trailer, so I could show her "The Wall" that Tony and I had put the boards on yesterday and yes, she loved it as much as I do. Then we went into Outer Space and laughed until It (my back.) hurt, but I am not whining, because visiting with Patty was worth it.

Tonight, I am going to continue reading the fabulous book, The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, that Carol has loaned to me, because Patty is also reading it and she loves it as much as Carol does.

Before I go, I received some sad news tonight from my dear friend Garnet Sheffield, in Utopia. She wrote to tell my that our dear friend Bob W. had to put his dog Blue down today and he is heartbroken. Blue was one of the very first dogs that our rescue ranch rescued from the pound on Labor Day Weekend 1998 and he was only about three months old and Bob and Helen adopted him one week later. 

Blue was a handsome Aussie mix and he had a blue eye and he was Bob's best friend—they did everything together. And I will never forget the joy that those two gave me, whenever I saw them riding around Utopia in Bob's vintage truck, with Blue riding shotgun, in the front seat or seeing them taking long walks together. "Bob, Tony and I loved Blue and we are so sorry about his passing, but we are so thankful that y'all found each other. He was one fine dog and a lucky one to have shared his life with you and Helen. He will never be forgotten. Rest in peace, Blue—you were loved by the Best."

Y'all have a great evening and please keep praying that we get some more rain!