D - Privacy, Soccer, Kitchen Updates - Yep! Randomness

So, I suppose the blog is secret, hidden and private now.  I really don't know how to check that - seeing as I have permission to see it and all.  It's kind of strange to know exactly who you are writing to.  It was rather fun to write to the world at large, but now I know exactly who checks in.  Odd. But, Hi, y'all!

Things have definitely picked up here in the last week as soccer season has started up again.  Noah's coach has been out of town, so I've been coordinating practices, uniforms, snacks, game schedules, etc. for two teams, and Mike has been coaching both teams' practices until Don gets back.   This has meant a great deal of pizza for the Bosleys!  Hopefully I can get things under control a little better next week.

Another recent event which lead to a great deal of fine dining for us was the discovery that we have had a slow leak under our kitchen sink for some time.  We had no idea until Mike felt like the kitchen was cooler than usual one morning and decided to look at the vent under the sink and discovered that the cabinet bottom had collapsed. 

He found some mold as well as wet insulation and studs and called in our neighbor who owns a roofing/construction business and had him give us some advice.  Things wound up not being quite as awful as we had first anticipated, but it did lead to a week's worth of drying out/demolding/rebuilding.  Let me tell you, a kitchen out of commission is no fun!

But while we were at it, we decided it was time to start considering some kitchen updates.  Since we'll be moving in a couple of years, we realized that the old appliances that all have something on them that doesn't quite work were going to have to be replaced.  The first update was a new oven and a new built-in shelf for our microwave.  It looks so much better now!  It's funny how long you can let something go in a state of disrepair and actually become blind to just how bad it looks.

For example, our built-in microwave quit working years ago.  Since it was huge and built-in, there was no readily available replacement that could just slip in there.  So, our lovely solution was this:

Just stick a too small microwave in the open hole and pretend it looks good.  I'm so embarrassed that we left it that way for so long.  But now, thanks to some hard work,

 (& after a few slight setbacks....)

Here's the new look.

A definite improvement.  I think it will look even better if we get a new microwave with a stainless finish.  I'm sure we'll get right on that...

Well, I've managed to tap out quite a few words for someone who thought they had nothing to say when I first sat down.  Have a great week, all!