For the Stunning Deedles: The Kitchen

I had posted some photos of things in our kitchen that I liked, and the delightful DeeDahLahDeeDah remarked how large the room seemed, so I figured I’d shared what it looked like when we moved in and what it looks like now, with a little paint and some scrubbing …

As you can see, in the photo, for the love of god, there were blue mother**king sponge-painted walls and a freakin’ chair rail. Also, what I politely called a Porn Lamp above where a table might sit. I went an olive green on the cabinets and a sunny yellow on the walls and ripped down that stinkin’ rail.

In this picture you see more brown than should ever be in a room, as well as an old, OLD, OLD Jenn Air Downdraft stove and the skinniest fridge I’ve ever seen. We kept the stove a while until we had a gas line run to the house, but the fridge went away instantly, as did the cabinet above as the new one was ‘human’ height.

This is the other side of the room, with the old and new paint, as well as a new dishwasher and, yes, I have one, and no, I’ve never used it, a trash compacter. I have decided that since we are not, as yet, redoing the entire kitchen, I am going to buy a small wine fridge because I need wine more than I need my trash compacted.

And these last photos are the kitchen today … well, the kitchen about a month ago when I took the photos. Lighter, brighter, and with new lamps, a new gas stove, and without a freakin’ chair rail!!

There you go, Duchess Deedles.

Things I Like #6

Once again, in a post inspired by, or stolen from, Mistress Maddie, here are some things I like that are around the house.

One of the things I like best about the house is how it’s changed from when we bought it, to how it looks today. When we bought the house, the crown molding, chair rails,  window trim, French doors, and baseboards were wood, but stained a hideous brown, and the living room walls were light blue above the chair rail, and a whisk broom painted effect in a darker blue below.

I hated it.

I painted three walls a gray, and one longer wall a darker gray; I removed the chair rail, and then painted the crown molding  and baseboards an ivory. I had a friend whose home had no such moldings and she painted “moldings” on the walls. I thought for a moment, and thought how to make our crown and base look a bit more dramatic, and the solution was to paint a stripe, in the same ivory, below the crown molding and just above the baseboards all around the room.

I like it.

I also—after much debate with Carlos, painted the mantel in white, and once that was done, we opted to switch out our Old—emphasis on old—west ceiling fans for something cooler … like a wooden airplane propeller. There are two in the living room and they look great and circulate the air better than those four-paddled monstrosities of yore.

More to come …

The Funny Papers

Nick Anderson, John Cole, Bill Day, Clay Bennett, Nate Beeler, Scott Stantis, Dave Whamond, Mike Luckovich, Steve Breen, David Horsey, Jim Morin

The Funny Papers

Nick Anderson, Steve Breen, Clay Bennett, Michael de Adder, Jim Morin, Mike Thompson, Bill Bramhall, Jack Ohman, David Horsey, Kevin Siers, Steve Sack

The Funny Papers

Jack Ohman, Nate Beeler, David Horsey, Ben Jennings, Michael de Adder, Nick Anderson, Ed Wexler, Mike Luckovich, John Cole, JD Crowe, Clay Bennett

Random Musings

I don’t really keep up with the gay porn industry, but this notice from Titan Media caught my eye …

It seems that Titan has announced it will pay off the outstanding legal debt, up to $1,000,000, for former Congressman Aaron Schock if the rock-hard bodied Republican will agree to star in a series of hardcore Titan Men gay porn films.

I’m guessing that since Schock loved Downton Abbey so much that he redecorated his Congressional offices in that style, that the name of his first foray into gay porn might be … “Downtown Aaron” … “Servicing Lord Grantham” … “Upstairs, Down There.”

"Mister Piece Theater"?

Just sayin’.

After the Iowa caucuses, Mike Huckabee has dropped out of the 2016 presidential race. I didn't even know he was in the race.

Don't stare directly into his eyes ....

So, six months ago TLC canceled "19 Kids and Counting" when we learned that eldest son Josh Duggar had molested his sisters and other girls, had schtupped a porn star and prostitutes, was addicted to porn, and was very active on adultery websites.

Yeah, quite the Family Values programming, eh? But now it appears … and I say appears because the story is appearing in only a few places, like the Christian Post, that TLC is bringing "19 Kids And Counting" back.

As I say, this might just be a joke, or a stupid rumor, but if it turns out to be true, I suggest the name be changed to:

"18 Kids, A Child Molesting-Adulterer-Porn-Whore And Counting".

Truth in advertising.

Who asked for “Zoolander 2”, a sequel to a fifteen-year-old movie, because we need to have a talk. Seriously.

I’ve been watching Ellen’s Design Challenge on HGTV; a competition show for furniture designers.

I was saddened when little hottie Bradley Bowers went from first in week one to worst in week two and was kicked off the show, but … it paved the way for under the radar hottie, furniture maker Kyle Huntoon to cross my radar.

Hot Gay Nerd.

I don’t know about the gay part, buy he’s hot and kinda nerdy, so I’m good.

Two [t]Rump related thoughts:

First up: he wants a new election in Iowa because he says Ted Cruz cheated. The "comb-over" wants a "do-over".

Secondly: I don't need another reason to adore Adele, but, well, here's another reason: she has demanded that Donald [t]Rump stop using her songs at his rallies.

Yeah, I adore her.

A friend is buying a home and was looking at various properties and then using Google Earth to get a street view. Another co-worker, as I looked at the photos, asked if the picture was of my house and I said it wasn’t. She asked to see my house, and so I Google Earth’d it and, well, they have updated their maps and it now shows the real color of our home and not the original blue-gray.

But what I love is that the house looks like it’s in the middle of the woods.

It looks so secluded … but it’s not.

So, a huge shocker about the Iowa caucuses, right? No, not that [t]Rump lost, or Ted Cruz lied or that Ben Carson slept though most it.

Rick Santorum quit the race! Isn’t that surprising!?! I mean he sure seemed like a good choice … but even funnier is that the minute he quit, he endorsed Marco Rubio and yet he is unable to name a single thing Marco Rubio has accomplished.

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Santorum could not answer a direct about what Rubio has done, except this:

“[He won] a tough election in Florida, pull[ing] people together from a variety of spots.”

Co-host Mika Brzezinski pushed further, saying “Jeb Bush ran Florida. Donald Trump built a company. Marco Rubio… finish the sentence.”

Santorum couldn’t. Now that’s a ringing endorsement.