Well, a lot has happened since September 2012. It's been a year and a half since we moved into our house in Christiansburg and a full summer, two Thanksgivings and two Christmases have happened since we last checked in on this blog. In addition to all sorts of house projects, most of them totally unglamourous (like replacing our garbage disposal, weatherizing, repairing a sump pump, etc), we started an organization called Downtown Christiansburg, Inc. (DCI for short), we've made new friends, celebrated my Mom's 50th birthday, won some ADDYs, celebrated my step-sister getting married, I turned 30, Dave ran for Christiansburg Town Council...and didn't win (all the incumbents were voted back in), then the holidays happened again and we visited lots of family and friends and generally had a jolly good time. I think, instead of giving you one HUGE LONG post, I'll break them up until we're caught up. This may not happen in chronological order.
For today's post, since we're just getting back into this, let's look at a house project:
You may remember our over-the-stove microwave. Well, it stopped working last Spring and started spitting sparks out the top and zzzzt-zzzzt-ing at us when we turned it on. We decided to take the opportunity to just replace the whole thing with a new hood instead of a new microwave (soooo much cheaper!). It gave us a ton more room above the stove, and the lighting was much nicer--it really opened up that side of the kitchen.
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