House update

Diogenes in cleaning cycle

Some more changes happening in the kitchen again. We started adding the frames for the trim above the cabinets. We also added the frame for the wall oven next to the fridge and the box for the microwave near the cooktop, below the small upper cabinet.

Flooring in the bedroom! We had a change of heart about our change of heart about carpeting and put in wood laminate instead. Our first laminate choice wasn't in stock so we went with a little darker flooring, it isn't as dark as the living room floor though. We stopped about 2 feet from our patio door in the bedroom, since a moisture problem has appeared there more prominently in the last couple weeks. The doors were installed backwards originally and rain water has been pooling along the bottom of the door frame for years. Now no amount of caulk and Great Stuf has been able to quell the water anymore. (Another interesting factoid- the other patio door in the house, in the living room, is also installed backwards! Oy...) Turning the door around now doesn't pay since the frame is rotten, so we are looking to get a replacement door soon before finishing the last 2 feet of flooring.

We compost now! We got a little kitchen scrap pail for the house and a barrel to make the compost outside. I am very excited.

Our little orange trees are heavy with green oranges right now, about the size of baseballs.

We brought one pumpkin back from my parents' pumpkin patch from WI 2 weeks ago. I bought a mum from Lowe's to make it feel a little more like fall around here. Fall leaves generally don't change around here until early November.

Quee lounging in the window sill, watching me take pics of the mum.