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We have a Schoolhouse fixture in our kitchen. The milky glass shades are fantastic... they just glow.

I have a tiny kitchen with limited storage, but I make room for a Garlic Twist. Love that thing.

My husband burned ours out kneading heavy dough... we drove it 3 hours to the nearest authorized repair center. Blown fuse. THREE BUCKS. Yes!

Oh, amen, Faith. My vines are dying and I'm mourning them and already wondering when I should plant them for the fall harvest. They are my favorite garden snack-- and Gracie's, too. We hardly have any that make it inside the house.

Shoot. 2 Kitchn windows open at once. Sorry, ya'll.

Ozark black walnuts are a delicacy, and during walnut season buyers set up in town to weigh and pay you for the harvest you pick up off the ground. It's a win-win situation-- you get the ankle-spraining things off the lawn, and they get the walnuts.

Last year, we gave the honor of harvesting our yard to an unemployed couple who was hauling load after load of wanuts to the dealers to make some money.

This year, I may try cashing in myself-- but next spring, I'll be trying this in hopes of some wonderful Christmas gifts. Thanks for the tip, Faith!

My upcoming appliance purchase is vintage: a late 1940's Chambers stove (BZ model) with chrome, side lights, and the magnificient thermowell. We've had it reporcelained in black. I am breathless with anticipation.

our Garlic Twist. I encountered one at a friend's and just had to have one. It works like magic.

cornbread from Crescent Dragonwagon.
fried okra from my mom.
peach pie made with fresh local peaches.
homemade ice cream.
brown beans or black-eyed peas cooked with ham.
strong black stovetop coffee.

(Faith, is that your kitchen in your new place? And did you two do that tilework and shelving? If so, AWESOME.)

My current top kitchen projects are 1) ripping off 1960s paneling, removing 1910s wallpaper and cheesecloth and thousands of tiny nails holding on the cheesecloth, and priming and painting the huge horizontal boards beneath in hopes that it will look beautiful and vintage and homey and not crappy. (I am hesitating before the enormity of this task and the uncertainty of its results.)

2) is easier: finding a kitchen cabinet type thingy to fill in the last bit of wallspace in the kitchen to give us a little more workspace, then installing open shelving above that for pretties, dishes, etc. I just found a perfect match to our (homemade 1950s) cabinets on Ebay, but it's ten inches too long. I bought it anyway and will put it on the adjoining back porch/coffee roastery/recycling chaos room.

Oh, here's one more project: convincing the restorer that's got our vintage Chambers stove to get moving and FINISH it already. He's had it forever.