Bad Kitty. Very Bad Kitty.
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Santa brought us a new mailbox. We really needed one. Our old one is all nasty and rusty and at some point a bird made a nest in the back and left a bunch of yucky stuff in there. And it’s small. Very tiny. So our poor mail lady has to bring stuff into the house a lot of the times because it won’t fit in our mailbox.
So, we got this nice HUGE rural mailbox. It’s really big. About 12 inches tall! And wide too. A lot of our smaller boxes and envelopes will fit nicely in there. I showed our mail lady it a week or so ago and she was so pleased! She’s super nice and said she didn’t mind bringing in all our stuff, but I did. Just because we have a crappy, teeny, nasty mailbox doesn’t mean she should have to work around us. Especially because we get a LOT of our supplies and such off the internet and eBay… we do get a larger amount of little packages and such. I told her I wanted to paint it up nice, and she said, she couldn’t wait to see how cool it was!!! (Did I say that she is super nice???)
Well, I debated in my head what I wanted to paint on it. How I wanted to do it and all that. And to celebrate our finishing of our art studio (photos and info to come) I decided that on one side I would put the numbers nice and big, and then on the other side the farm name would get top billing. Our house marks the first address that transitions into being Main Street as opposed to Route 20. And I know how I dislike trying to find a house number and it’s way teeny or not even there. So, I made it nice and big on the way coming from Toledo. That should work nicely!
It needs a spray of sealer, but that shouldn’t take long to dry and I hope I can pop it outside tomorrow! That will be fun! Can’t wait to see how it looks! I hope we can get the old one off the post easily!
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It took us about three days to get pretty much done, but it was worth it. Now we have a much more efficiently functioning kitchen. All the frequently used equipment is in the right hand side, including most of the foodstuffs… and the less frequent stuff is in the left hand side in the pantry and hanging big shelves.
So far, it’s been delightful to work with. Not sure why I didn’t think of it before, I just guess we were sort of set in our ways. It got me to thinking that it’s probably good to step back and take a look at some of your own “systems” and routines and see if maybe they can be tweaked a bit or altered to work better.
Went through all the jars and such in the hanging cupboards, too. They were just cluttered and had a bunch of weird, out of place things and it was just not right. Jessy and I took everything down, cleaned and then put things back in ways that just made more sense. Grouped like things and such. The third shelf from the bottom is going to be our snack shelf, and that really is nice. It was also useful to see what we had and consider some of the “lost” things for meals in the coming week.
Back around the corner, in the breakfast nook, that no one uses but the cats… we put all the small appliances and less frequently used items. We also stashed all our canning jars as well as the great stash of egg cartons that we have. It is nice to have them nearby, but not right in the middle of the whole operation.
We are going to use our little shelf unit that we got off Craig’s List to store pet and farm things. Dog grooming stuff, food, mittens and hats, stuff like that. Ultimately I want to turn the nook into a pet/farm/outdoor gear storage area! With a couple tall wardrobe units, a little work surface counter, wet boot storage and room for the kitty litter boxes and food storage. But that will have to wait a bit. We have a little leak in the back there and the ceiling is rough. It’s the last ceiling in the house that needs replacing. I’m hoping that we can solve the leak by doing some more caulking and then tar application around a few pipes that come up through the membrane roof in that area. It’s a relatively new roof, and seems quite sound, but when it rains REALLY hard, we get a little drip, drip, drip. I think it’s the water getting in under the roof, from the force of the hard sideways rain. Normal simple showers and there’s nothing. I’m hoping that a good liberal amount of thick gunking will stop that right up! But until then, that little nook is going to just be in flux. Which is fine! We’ve got plenty of time to worry about that. And other things on the priority list!
But I am just so pleased at how the re-arranging went! I think we will like this for years to come. It just makes better sense.
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