Today I went on the Elmwood Village Kitchen Tour with my mother and
(e:matthew). I liked seeing people's kitchens - it gave me a bunch of ideas. I don't usually get to see many people's kitchens because of my animal allergies. The theme this year was green kitchens.
I would say maybe like 10% of the kitchen's mentioned anything that had to do with green. One lady had bamboo floors and recycled glass counter tops. Another one used a certain kind of tree that grew faster than usual trees. The rest pretty much did not mention anything. Oh accept the one kitchen that had all reused stuff (green) left their shower on during the whole thing to show how awesome it was. It was awesome but serioulsy we could just trust you dude.
I saw some really nice woodwork.
Including this turtle at the Elmwood Village Inn

at which
(e:drew) was a tour guide.
Sorry the picture sucks, stupid iphone is really bad with snap shots.
We saw
(e:janelle) along the way and ate some Italian Nougat at Delish which was in fact super delish.
In the end we toured the Gilda Radner house which was cool.
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE
I really thought showing the two empty houses with half done kitchens that were both for rent on Bryant was tacky. I mean I just paid $18 per person to see kitchens. I don't need your lame ass advertsiement pushed in my face. Especially not if your kitchen isn't even all that. Is there no oversight committee of these kind of things. I felt the same way on the Linwood home tour four years ago when an apartment building showed an empty apartment for rent.
Unrelated but along the way:
I also saw these panties outside Delish and wonder what the story behind that is.
I love the colours. BTW, fall in Ithaca is much more vibrant than here! I need to post pictures of my long long hike through west-central NY.
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