Basement getting nearer completion
We have had another week of renovating the basement. All the walls are now dry walled and we are working on the ceilings now. It is starting to look a bit better and for some reason we both think it looks bigger, even though we have divided one huge area into several rooms.
It has been cold and wet again this week. Last night we had snow flurries again, but not too much and it had disappeared as soon as the sun came up this morning.
We bought a new TV for the spare bedroom for when the kids come to visit next month (the kids, by the way are in their early 20’s). It is a 32” inch and looks so small compared with the 52” we have in the living room, but it is the same size as the main TV we had in the UK!
We also bought a PSP games thingy. In the UK we had a Playstation, but although we liked playing it, because it was part of the TV we rarely used it. We decided here to have a portable one as it is a simple case of turn it on and away we go.
I also got a new tabletop oven or toaster oven as they are called here. I mentioned before about not getting double ovens here and having to buy a separate grill. However this causes a lot of smoke and smells, so I decided I needed a toaster oven and it is brilliant. It is a large one, you can fit two 12” pizzas in it and worth every penny so far. It has a convection oven, so cooks many other things quicker than my big oven and will also broil (grill) bake and has a rotisserie too. I seem to be using it for everything and it does not smoke or smell, great.
