I took off today…. decided that I needed to take a break, ya know?  Sometimes we just reach that point where we need a little time for ourselves.  I’ve been working on the “project” day and night and I just needed to take a little time off to spend with DH and DD as well as to do some cleaning inside the house LOL   With DH working and me volunteering 12-16 hours per day, needless to say the house is a wreck!  So many things need to be “DONE”….  I  started in the kitchen this afternoon and I just about have everything cleaned up and back in place.  I still have some more work to do in the kitchen, but things are looking much better.

This morning DH and I went to Lowes to look around a little bit.  I think I mentioned on the blog that I came home one night to find that my office, sunroom, kitchen, laundry office bathroom, and breakfast were all flooded with water.  Well, DH has done a great job of trying to get up all of the old flooring and now, we’re walking on concrete floors.   I’ve wanted to change out the flooring in the kitchen, breakfast and laundry for a while now but decided we’d leave down the linoleum we had until we  had the time/money to replace it.  Needless to say, the water leak moved that date up quite a bit LOL   So we looked at some ceramic tile this morning.  We’ll begin to start putting away some money from every paycheck until we have enough to cover the expense of buying the tile, the adhesive and the grout.  DH is going to measure and determine how many tiles that we are going to need and we’ll get an estimate based on the cost of the materials.  Then, all we will need is the time to install it.

We are very lucky because DH can do just about anything…. besides being raised on a dairy farm, he also built and remodeled homes in his father’s business.  So these things he learned as a teenager and young adult have really helped us through the years!   DH has already tiled 2 of our bathrooms and he did such a great job with them.  So we’ll save the cost of labor and I’ll help him install the ceramic tile in the kitchen, breakfast and laundry room…

Now back to our Lowe’s trip this morning.   Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten any seeds started inside for my fall garden :-(   I have just been too busy and didn’t have enough time.  So, we headed to the garden area where I found some Georgia Collards, Swiss Chard and Red Sails Lettuce transplants! I purchased several packs of each one :-)  Here’s some pics of them:

As you can tell, the lettuce and the chard transplants are a bit big so I trimmed both of them up a little.  Now, I have some chard that I’ll saute in a little butter to go with my scrambled eggs in the morning and I’ll have some baby leaf lettuce for lunch tomorrow!  Here’s what the lettuce transplants look like now:

I have them under the light setup I have in my formal dining room (where I usually get my seeds started).  I’ll leave them there for a couple of days until I have some time to get them transplanted into the garden.

How’s your fall garden coming along?