My New Kitchen....almost !!!

The kitchen reno has slowed, through no fault of ours, but it is progressing....
Our builder  and hubby  began the process of lining the  kitchen walls which took a couple of days,

Hubby had  purchased a sheet lifter to aide  in  putting up the ceiling sheets  and it certainly made a huge difference, he and the builder were easily able to do the ceiling by themselves .

Once the ceiling was in  our neighbour, friend, electrician came back and installed all the lighting and power points into the  sheeting and hubby got busy with plastering the joins.

Then the kitchen installation day finally arrived, the  carcasses  were being done in Dubbo( a bit over an hour away, but the doors were a special  style I ordered and  were not made locally so had to order them)

So this is where we are at now,  unfortunately the doors have been delayed  and won't be  here and installed until at least the 17th of December. But it is reasonably functional for the time being.
We have purchased a new gas stove and a new dishwasher, but these also won't be installed until after the tiling is done, but the tiler was due to start yesterday but was a no show due to car issues.

So these are sitting out on the verandah just waiting to be installed.
During the  kitchen progress I have had a few injuries that slowed me down a bit, firstly I dropped the big heavy crow bar that I was levering rocks out of a garden edging with,

It was very swollen and painful.
Then a few days later whilst helping load  demolition rubbish onto the utility, I banged my shin not one but stupidly three (3) times on the tow bar of the ute.

And finally, while heading up to the chook yard to collect eggs one day soon after,  slipped over  in a chook  dust hole and   rolled my ankle badly, not broken just sprained. All my injuries have now healed, although the ankle is a little weak, but I will take care not to injure it again.

We  are finally starting to use  the house like normal, won't be much longer now and  life will return to our usual  routine, which will be lovely.
We have just had all our children and grandchildren home for a few days and   it felt good.

We put up a shade shelter and a paddeling pool and  escaped the heat as best we could. It will be wonderful when we  finally are able to erect a covered area out this side of the house.
We have had a wonderful glut of apricots on our old tree this year, I picked a total of 11 buckets of fruit from it and made up 3 batches of jam as well as 4  canner loads of preserved  apricots for the pantry.

The pantry is a mess, as I have been just shoving things in there whenever I need to clear spaces, but I organized this a bit to put all the apricot preserving away.
The vegie garden is progressing well, hubby has been struggling with the water, spending ages moving hoses and trying to keep it all  growing,

The first planting nearly ready to harvest and process and the second planting close behind.

We also had our first and only cherry off our newly planted trees, hubby very generously gave it to me, it was delicious.

It's been a huge month or so since I last posted, and I must endeavour to update more often, but time just gets away and always something needing to be done, But I promise I will try. :-)  :-)
So, until we meet again further down the track of life,
Take care,
Cheers.
Jane.