Slow progress continues.....

Sorry for taking forever to update my blog. Both hubby and I have been SO sick, it's been awful! He's had to miss a few days of work due to some nasty ear infections. (He works out in the cold and snow, so that doesn't work so well for him). I am having some breathing issues. I went to the clinic, only to be told that they really don't know what is wrong. My lungs are clear, but I can feel, that there is something down in my chest that wants to be brought up...it just doesn't want to come up! It's making it difficult for me to breathe. It's not congestion either. The antiobiotics they gave me aren't working, and I seem to be getting worse, not better. *sigh*

Anyways, I have made a little progess...as I can't lay here in my bed like I would like to (or as my breath would allow me to). But when I get winded, here is my companion and who I deem the World's BEST Dog (I call her my tool dog too. She's not afraid of the power tools). Here's Lucy!

She know's I'm not feeling well, so she stays close. In fact, she just stays close all the time. It's in her breed. I totally love her for it!

Ok, so, remember when my kitchen stove was sitting in the middle of the kitchen like this?

As small as our kitchen is, it wasn't very functional or spacesaving to have it laid out this way. (Hey, we didn't do it, it was this way when we moved in!). If you look at the back of the stove, they had built some shallow shelving to hide the back of the stove, see it? It was pretty useless as well, so this is what we have done for now.

We took out part of the counter that was up against the wall, and put the stove up against the wall instead of it being smack in the middle of the floor. See the picture on the left, the little shelving thing...that is what was on the back of the stove prior to us moving it. Note the rug in the middle of the floor. It's NOT because I like it. =) In this kitchen....the cabinets were built and the stove was placed and THEN the flooring was laid! When we moved the stove, the cord was set  in the middle of the floor. In order to to move the cord, we had to cut into the flooring. (my darlin husband made the cut, as I was afraid of cutting something else below). His cut ended up looking like something rather phallic in nature (not on purpose), hence the reason for the rug, until we get around to the floors!

That's all I've got for ya for now....hopefully I can get to feeling better soon so I can start getting more done!