I’ve got an idea

Editor’s Note: This column originally published Dec. 24, 2015

This time of year, I always have grand visions of the upcoming season’s vegetable garden and bright ideas for new landscaping projects. The only problem is most of my ideas require assistance from the hubby.

After 35 years of marriage — let’s face it — I know how to get what I want. I also know the power of this gift and I don’t abuse it. I reserve it for the really important things — well, important to me.

Hubby may roll his eyes, grunt and groan, but he knows how this all works. He complains and moans, then when the time comes we get to work.

Take for instance my kitchen. We bought an old farm house roughly 17 years ago and little by little we’ve tried to update it and make it suitable for our own tastes. This winter I decided it was time to redo the kitchen. I’m going to be honest, I had to battle for this one. I had been envisioning exactly what I wanted, and I was determined to have it completed before Christmas. I wasn’t asking for walls to be knocked out, I simply wanted new countertops and a new sink. My mistake was using the word “simply.”

Hubby and I are very compatible. We don’t fight, we don’t yell, but there have been a few times when we don’t speak. My kitchen redo was one of those times.

What I thought would be a nice little weekend project turned into a two-week ordeal but eventually I ended up with new countertops, a new sink, new tile backsplash, new base cabinets and all before Christmas. And Hubby is the first one to say, he loves the kitchen.

So anyway…

I’m thinking this spring I’d like to upgrade our firepit we regularly enjoy, maybe tear out the old garden pond and make it bigger and expand on the double waterfall we constructed a few years ago that cascades into it, tear out the old patio … I’m starting to think I should stop here. Hubby reads the paper.

Contact Dana King at dking@shawmedia.com

Dana King

Dana King

Multitasking duties between the Newton News, PCM Explorer and the Jasper County Tribune.