Things   move slowly when we are sitting in Philly and the house is in North Wildwood.  You just can't tackle a project when you come home from dinner.

But we have made some progress. 

Marianne and Fred visited one miserable afternoon and tackled the back yard.   We made a run to Lowe's and bought garden tools, one of each kind. 

That's Marianne in the navy blue jacket. 

Here's the result of that day's work - pretty nice, huh?

Then Fred gave Mike some HUGE assistance with the giant wrench!  The heater needed to be re-lit and Fred helped with that, too. 

 

 

And at the end of the day we had a new cook top installed.  (The house had a very strong natural gas odor when we bought it, and the culprit was the cook top.)

Tricia contributed Mom's wicker furniture and Fred and Marianne brought it down in their van.  Mike and Fred set it up on the 2nd floor, and Mar and I made it up - Mom included the sheets.

We think the white wicker makes the room look nice and seashore-y.  

One visit later, Mariel and Diana and I switched out all the white enamel (now yellow) knobs on the kitchen cabinets and replaced them with something silver to match the stainless trim.  They look pretty nice.

And in one of the drawers, we discovered a collection of lighthouse potholders.  So, no thank you, we don't need any more.

Till next time -