Matt and Peg

Dinner in the suburbs, what could be finer? With the fine new kitchen and shiny and paneling-free, we quickly went out and bought flanksteak. What's the connection? See, in order to have people over, we needed the dining room table cleared off. In order to do that, we needed to get one last piece of furniture - the hutch you saw here a week or so ago, and in order to have that delivered, we needed to finish painting the kitchen. I will not put my clumsy self and a bucket of paint near the new things.

So with the kitchen newly greened, and the wine glasses moved from the old mildewed cabinet to the dining room table to a nice, clean glass shelf, we were ready to begin. First to the meat case. Then to the grill. The grill was, unfortunately, blocked by a series of new hornets' nests. I am scared of hornets and decided that, having seen many beekeeping specials on public television, that the smoke from the grill would keep me safe.

The hornets stayed put.

Also, the new outlets were installed without a hitch. Next stop, plumbing!