KITCHEN PICTURES

We continue to decorate the kitchen and fine tune. We've started to hang pictures, and that's a long, slow process with these old walls. Art usually has to drill 4 or 5 five holes, starting with a very small bit and slowly working his way up. the reason I'm not doing this job is becuase we (Art) bought a cordless drill, which I think is a total piece of shit. It's a Black and Decker, and was reasonably priced..in fact, the reason Art bought it was because it was on sale for the same price as a corded drill, and he liked the idea of being able to move around with it. But...the stupid thing just can't hold a chrge long enough to hang many pictures, since each picture requires so much drilling. Eventually, I'll buy a "real" dril for me.

Also, we got the estimates for the TV cabinet, and WOW! what a difference. The guys who built our kitchen shelving were 60% MORE than the furniture store, so, we'll be using the furniture store for this piece of furniture. For now, we did take the TV out of the box, simply to get it out of the hall. We have it sitting on the coffee table, and with the antennae hooked up, the picture is pretty good. The bad news is the DVD player we got for one euro when we bought the TV will NOT play our zone 1 DVD's. The only DVD we had before our stuff arrived was one of the Rick Steve's travel videos, and apparently they are zone free. The good news is, the sound system we're looking at has a DVD player built in...this seems to be a pretty standard feature now. anyway, the guy at the furniture store said the cabinet would be ready in thirty days. Until then, a lot of our stuff will have to stay in boxes in the hall or in our bedroom. Since we can't afford to have the armadio for our bedroom made until this summer, that's not a problem.