Yesterday we woke to a beautiful snowscape. Three neighbor boys converted the slope by our front walk into a toboggan run. Seems kids & dogs are the only ones enjoying the snow. Lynna continued her room by room battle with sanding dust left from finishing the floors. I completed installation of the hood vent over the cook top and connected its wiring. Just need a few feet of venting to finish. I put another coat of Danish oil on several cabinets and re-hung the doors on the upper kitchen cabinets that were installed over the week-end. The new floors don't photograph in their true color, they aren't so yellow & look almost like unfinished wood. Must be something in the penetrating oil product we used or perhaps its reflection from the yellow walls. I haven't found a way to compensate so far. I will put up my best attempt at color adjustment along with the unbalanced shots but its still not right. The floor has shades from a warm white to a rich brown on the most figured wood, very pretty but impossible to show in an image.

The city has been plowing our arterials so I took Lynna to Safeway & Roth's to shop for groceries. This required shoveling the driveway which had snow on top of ice on top of snow. It took a while! Our first stop was Safeway which is always crowded. We got everything on our list then stood in line for 1/2 hour to reach the checkstand. Roth's was much better with no lines at all. We also stopped at Ace Hardware & bought a flourescent tube for the hood vent. We have installed this same Braun vent in our two previous homes and it always came with a tube. Looks like the bean counters decided to boost profits a bit.