Kitchen Facelift #4

The last thing to do before the cabinets

are installed is to remove the sink.

That is what AJ did Sunday evening.

Monday morning, April 19, the installer

will be here at 8:00 AM to start putting

my kitchen back together.

It is really getting hard to see the

light at the end of the tunnel,

when you are are is such a mess.

I have STUFF in the storage sheds,

in the garage, in the living room and

sitting on any flat surface.

The stove is unhooked, so there is

no cooking. The microwave is sitting

in the bedroom at the foot of the bed,

so no heating up food. The sink is

gone, so all water is gotten out of the

bathroom basin for coffee, drinking,

and washing up a cup or spoon.

STUFF is shuffled from one room to another.

If you look back at the pictures, you will see

the large orange buckets were in the kitchen,

now they are in the living room.

At last Monday morning, Josh,

the installer gets here and starts to work.

First he takes the top cupboards,

that were in boxes all over the kitchen

and dinning area, out of the boxes and

puts them in the kitchen. The boxes are

broken down and put outside.

At last we can walk a straight line.

He starts hanging the top cabinets.

No sooner do we get use to the open space,

the bottom cabinets are delivered. We are

now worse off then we were.

Tuesday Josh is back again at 8:00 AM to

continue on the prodject. He gets most of it

done, but will be back Wednesday to finish up.

Here is the almost finished hung cabinets.





Next comes the counter top and
backsplash.

I purchased a new sink and faucet and still

have to get a new stove and range hood.

Am I having fun yet?

NO

To be continued.......

Kitchen Face Lift #3

Ruin:...Complete collapse or destruction,

or the remains of something destroyed

(Webster Dictionary)

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"This window is just taking up useful

space, it has to go!" I told AJ and

so it went.

Gone!!!! My fridge will now be

in front of it. This will give ME

room for a pantry and

needed extra cupboards and

counter space.

Next Jen and AJ cleared out my very

over crowded cupboards. I did sort

through stuff I haven't used in years

and gave to the Pets & People Thrift Store.

The contents of my cabinets were

packed in large plastic storage boxes

and stored in my shed.

Next the doors were removed.



They then worked on clearing out the
bottom cupboards and removing
the bottom doors.





Now the fun started.
Each manned a hammer and
stared tearing out the cupboards.







Believe Me when I say
"they were noisey".

These were the original cupboards and were

hand built. They were very sturdy and

took quite a bit of muscle to remove.

But, My Darlings stuck with it.

Jen kept saying to ME,

"Mom are you sure you want to do this?"

Like, now is a little bit late to turn back!!!!!

They were like my very own

Energizer Bunnies:

they just kept going and going

and going!!!

Now, I am going to admit,

I did almost

NOTHING!

Every time I got up to help, I was

told to sit down or get back.
Believe ME, they didn't have

to tell ME twice!

I told Jen

"You look-ca like a Women

and work-ca like a Man!

I told AJ,

You Look-ca like a Man

and work-ca like a Young Man!

Load after load was carried

out to the truck.

Just getting rid of this trash is a job in it's self.

This is the new spot for the fridge,

in front of the old window.

The little microwave cart

will be a thing of the past.

Cabinets all gone!

All Gone!

AJ left the sink hook up,

Thank Goodness!

It will come out just before

the new cabinets are installed.

Here Wade and Jen are pulling up

the kitchen floor and some of the

dining area carpet.

Boy am I glad to see that stuff go.

Well this is what I am living in now.

Just remnants of a kitchen.

Well I get a call from my contractor,

and he tells ME my cupboards are in

and will be installed Monday, April 19.

He says they will deliver the wall

cabinets today. And they did.

Now my kitchen and dining area are

filled up with boxed cupboards.

The bottom cabinets will be delivered after the

tops are installed. Then we wait for

the counter tops.

To be continued........

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INVASION

Everyone that has a lawn has seen these at

one time or another.

Where do they come from?
When I plant flowers or vegies, I have
to baby them, feed them, water them,
cover them if it frosts, shade them from
the hot sun, turn the soil around them,
spray them to keep bugs away
and pray that will grow.

But these plants thrive on nothing.

Can you find a Four Leaf Clover?

As a Little Girl I loved patches of

clover and would spend a whole

afternoon looking for the "Lucky One".

Now that I am an adult, I have

learned they choke out the grass.

This fellow has a 6" root going straight down.

Very hard to pull!

This one can fool you.

They look like a Sweet Violet when they bloom.

If you make the mistake of letting them
bloom, the next year you have hundreds of them!

Well, I have to run,

the ROUND-UP

is calling my name!

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Besta Friends

I've always heard Cats & Dogs could be friends.

AJ & ME's first set of Beloved Pets:

2 Dogs and 3 Cats,

lived together just fine, but

I wouldn't go as far as to say they

were Best Friends.

Our Lillie (whom is still living and will be

19 in April) would lick/clean Lady's, our

female dog's, ears.

Butch, the male dog,

would smell a Cat Butt if one got

close enough to his nose.

But that really

was all the interaction between the Pets.

Now the New Kids, Murphy & Marley,

have alot of fun together. Mar will chase

Murph and then Murph will chase Mar.

Around and around the house,

up on the bed.

and then under the bed.

Then they will take a rest.

Just like all parents,

Nap Time is such a pleasure for AJ & ME.
Just like all parents,
We look at the sleeping "KIDS"
and say
"aren't they cute, get the camera".

Of course the activity of taking pictures
wakes them up.

MARLEY:..."Come on Mom, let me sleep!"

ME:.."Smile Honey, You are soooo cute

when you're tired".

ME:..."Come on Sweetie smile for

the readers". Come on smile....smile...

Sorry no smile.

Just like Kids when you want

them to do something cute

they won't.

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Would you believe it, after I put

the camera away she smiled all

over the place!!!!!

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Feeling a Little Wired!!!

It doesn't seem like almost a year ago

AJ & ME went through his heart

problems.

After 2 ablations we thought all

was well, and maybe it is.

Lately though AJ has had some

off and on problems.

Shortness of breath, fluttering heart,

higher then usual blood pressure

and just not feeling up to par.

He had a standing appointment

set up a year ago with the heart doctor.

When he went in for the check-up and

told the Doc some of the symptoms he had

been having, the Doc put him on a

48 hour Heart Monitor.

It had 7 leads and they all connected

to a little monitor that has been reading

his heart activity the past couple of days.

He took it off Saturday afternoon and

will take it to the Doc on Monday to be read.

to be continued....
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