Reno update

For anyone who happens to care - the kitchen is coming together at last. The floor is complete; the painting done except a few touch-ups. It's been a trial because with the layout of this house, the kitchen really is the heart of things. You enter the house and are immediately in the kitchen; you get into the living room thru either of two doors from, you guessed it, the kitchen. Off the kitchen into a hall to the two mainfloor bedrooms and the stairwell leading to the basement. You literally can't get anywhere except by walking through it.

So we've had a large pantry, refrigerator and the stove all hunkered down in the living room taking up most of the space - looming over us as we try to watch TV. Poor Lynda has consumed more than a few bottles of wine and a couple of rum through this endevour. I'm still sober but sometimes wonder how -Arrrggghh!

Now it's a matter of sorting what stays and what goes; and cleaning room by room straight through the house the 1/4 inch of plaster dust that has filtered throughout. Dust bunnys galore!

If you care to see the project in progress, the fellow who did the floor has pictures on his website, on the projects 2 tab, Norm & Lynda's kitchen. It includes a pic of our cat, Buddy, who took a shine to Gord the contractor. It's at www.hunnydoo.ca/.

On the homefront

It must be at least 3 weeks ago that Lynda and I started reworking the kitchen; we're still mired in chaos and disorder. She and I managed to get the lighting fixtures down and the ceiling repainted. That damn near killed us - left us weary and aching. I got one of the new fixtures up so we had some light. Then we and stepson #3 scraped the tiles off the floor and got that all bagged up. We called in a pro for the new floor - ceramic - and he's to finish grouting it Saturday. Friends of #3 are supposed to re-mud the walls , patching up all the dings and then paint. I know it should have been done before the floor but..........
It'll be sooooo nice when it's all done, things are back to normal and we can look back on this and laugh or groan. And all because we wanted to freshen up the place; it was looking dingy. Lord, give us strength (and maybe a lotto win). Amen.