Kitchen and Living Room

Some photos taken earlier in March. The first set is Henry horsing around in the kitchen. He takes the camera from me and snaps a good pic of me. The last couple he is sitting on my stomach, demanding I return the camera.

The second set was taken in the living room with H watching TV. Even Dad with camera rates below Elmo on the H-interest scale.

We have been working on Henry's bedroom. Pictures will be posted soon of the Before and After. The painting is almost complete. The walls are red and blue with a white band half way up the wall. The room theme will be a nautical look. We just picked up replacement closet doors. The old ones were hollow-core sliders that block half the closet when open. We are replacing them with half-louvered bi-fold doors that will look more like a ship's door. The trim in the room was already a medium stain with varnish, so the doors will be finished to match. I also have a paddle fan light that will be installed in the ceiling.

We now have cable, Internet, and phone connections. I set up the Vonage service for phone - the cost is so low compared to traditional phone service. I upgraded the Vonage standard phone device to a wireless network router + phone, so it also runs the home computer network. The phone part of the device plugs into a phone jack in the basement, making all the other phone jacks in the house "live" so we can continue to use our regular phone sets.

Vonage has some useful features compared to regular phone service. Phone messages can be emailed to you; you can also play them from the Vonage website. You can set up a fail-over number (cell phone) in case the Vonage service or Internet goes down so you never miss a call. You can go to the website and set a forwarding number if you are going to be away from home for some time. AND if you want to take your home phone with you, you can. Just take the Vonage phone device along and plug it into the local Internet service.










Ah, the octagonal stained-glass window between the kitchen and dining room is visible here:




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