Insomnia

I know I should be sleeping. I'll especially know it tomorrow morning. But for now, the house is quiet, and I'm getting uninterrupted time. So why would I sleep? Why, that'd be...that'd be silly!

So I'm thinking about my day, instead. I'm thinking about how I woke up this morning and remembered that the piano tuner was coming to tune my FREE piano. When he walked in the door, he ran his hands along the front of the piano, feeling the grain. I don't know from what type of wood the piano is made, but it looks like curly walnut or some such. Very pretty. Still, because it was a free piano, I am suspicious of its true value. So when the piano tuner asked me how we got the piano in. I asked, "Why? Should we take it back out?" "Oh, no!" he said, "I like it!" For the next hour, I watched the piano tuner...well...tune my piano. When he was done, he pronounced it "among the living," and left. Now we have a freshly tuned piano for the gathering! I do hope someone who plays will come for our jam! Claudia, if you're reading this, I'm counting on you. :-)

In between The Baby's screaming and pizza bagels, the kids and I began deep cleaning the house room by room. Bard, Bohemain and I also worked on the kitchen cabinets. We had our cabinets built for our new house by a local Amishman, who must have thought we were thoroughly and completely nuts when I told him what I wanted. The upper cabinets are hickory, some with glass fronts. We had the carpenter poly the upper cabinets in natural but asked him to leave the lower cabinets unfinished. We then finished them with Old Fashioned Milkpaint in Lexington Green. It's been quite a learning experience, but we have the look we wanted...antiqued, distressed and very farmhousey. :-) For the past couple of weeks, we've been putting a coat of polyurethane on the cabinets. I didn't want to do this. We tried using Watco Danish Oil, but the waterspotting and staining was just awful, so I finally sanded the cabinets and coated them with two coats of satin poly. We have one coat of poly to do on our 8x4' island, and the doors/drawers that go in it, and we'll be DONE with that! We still want to make a matching panel for our FREE dishwasher after we determine whether it works or not.

Tomorrow...continuing to deep clean room by room.

Oh, joy.