Really Good Gifts

Want to know one of the nicest things I've ever been given?  A kitchen.  Really.  When I married Joe, I moved in to his 1975 Georgian Colonial, with the LEMON YELLOW FORMICA and lime green carpeting.  We were married in '88, but he had not changed a thing. The 70's was a bad decade for color.  Really bad.

I lived with that lemon yellow kitchen (with very dark pine cupboards) for almost 20 years.  I hated it.  We never had the money to gut it, and he would not let me just drop a grenade and work with what was left. Fast forward to our friends Tom and Joe, who - in the course of remodeling their kitchen - decided we could have their "old" one (about 5 or 6 years old.....).  It's a work in progress - even their granite countertops have been re-cut and fitted in to place.  I'll post progress - but I thought of them tonight, as they are coming over for dinner.  I'd feed them every day for the rest of my life, I'm so grateful.

PS - the yellow formica in the "new" shot is my husband's idea of  humor. It is all GONE.

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