new kitchen table ~ and Mama Robin update

Happy Memorial Day! We'd normally be grilling today but the weather here has

been so cold and rainy. Instead, my friend is going to be joining us this evening

for pizza, sangria, and some rousing rounds of Scrabble.

In the meantime...when my mom and I were out thrifting the other day, I found

a beautiful drop-leaf table. As I mentioned, I've been looking for one to put in front

of my living room window. The one my mom gave me a couple of weeks ago is too

small. This one looked just right in the store. I figured if it didn't work out, that I could

use it for a kitchen table and get rid of the modern teak one that we have. (It's "OK", it

just doesn't go in my cottage kitchen.) I hemmed and hawed about the table, as I

really don't have the extra money to spend right now. The store was having a 50%

off sale, and the tag on the table said $250, so that made the table $125. Still

too high for me. So I asked the owner if she'd come down to $100, but she held firm at

$110. I kept walking away and going back to look at the table. I really wanted it.

You guessed it ~ it came home with me. The cats immediately had to check it out.
 Oh - and it endedup that I don't like it in front of the living room window.

Brian took apart the teak table that was in the kitchen and we set up the drop leaf

one in its place ~ only we put the leaves up to make it a small, round table.

I love it! It's perfect for the two of us. And it takes up so much less room in the

 kitchen than the bigger teak table did. I just need two new chairs now. These 

are temporary. Though they might look better if I paint them. I'm playing it by ear,

 depending what other chairs I can find in resale shops.

I also need a new rug. This sisal one with black trim does not "go" in my kitchen.

In my May 17th post, I wrote about how a robin built a nest in my hanging basket

of flowers. And that she had laid one egg thus far. Well, she has now laid four eggs

(the most robins lay at one time) and is busy laying on her eggs, which robins do

for two weeks. I love watching her and can't wait to chronicle the rest of her story

when her babies hatch out of their eggs!

Aren't robin's eggs the most beautiful blue you've ever seen?

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