This is the paper shelf that Darryl built for me after I’ve loaded it down with paper and other bits and pieces. He did a wonderful job making sure it’s stable and won’t collapes under the weight of all my paper. He also helped me turn the wire baskets you see on the 2nd shelf from the bottom into pull out shelfs. He is so super smart! I love my new paper shelf!

And here is the whole kit and caboddle. This is where all the magic happens… my scrapbooking area! I love it !!!

Tomorrow I have an HVAC guy coming out to give an estimate on a new unit and furnace and a guy that does plumbing and electricals. It’ll be nice to see how much we need to start saving. Thursday I’ll have a contractor coming out to give an estimate on remodeling the upstairs area and a few other things. So far we need 20k for the kitchen.

Luckily Margaret’s friend Liz brought us over a griddle for us to cook on till we get our range (which will be 10 business days from today). For that I’m very VERY thankful.

Other than that, that’s all I got. I’m out!

Before :  The kitchen cabinets over where the fridge should be are still there.

After : In order to make room for the new fridge we had to remove those cabinets.

we’ve removed the doors and the side.

and now Darryl has just removed the bottom piece of wood

and here is a photo of the sawzall (reciprocating saw ) that we purchased. Darryl’s friend Dave suggested that we purchase Makita brand. He said it was a little pricey, but out lasts most others.

We’ve been scrubbing the kitchen from head to toe for the past couple of days to get the funky smells out. It’s funny we went to an estate sale today and the basement in that house smelled just like ours (musty smelling). There’s got to be a way to get that smell out, but anyway I didn’t mean to digress. The kitchen has tile and the grout is black and it should be a shade of light brown. I put soft scrub on all the grout and let it sit for a few moments before Margaret and I started scrubbing like crazy. Some of the blackness came up along with some food. How gross is that? Margaret had a nice routine going on cleaning the top cabinets. First she would bleach the inside of a cabinet, then take a watered down paper towel to the cabinet, and finally wipe down the inside with an organic cleanser. She’s managed to get the litter box smell out of the cabinets (which is awesome!). We know that we’re not dirty people, but Lord have mercy. These cabinets were funk filled.

Oh yea, still without a fridge and range. We do have a crusty old Kenmore dishwasher from the 70′s though. It says on the appliance that it’s a “special edition.” Too bad that it’s not special enough to update itself. There’s all sorts of crusty old soap on the inside of the dishwasher. It’s so gross.

That’s all I got kids, I’m out.

I’m expecting something very nice in return and won’t accept anything other than. So we’ll have to see. We’ve been real easy to work with, but when we’re unhappy, we’re unhappy and we’re going to try to resolve this like adults. Luckily we haven’t paid them complete and won’t until everything is satisfactory to us. I think we’d be happy with them shaving a couple thousand from our original purchase, because can you imagine the fine they’d receive for allowing people to work with alcohol on our premise alone? Oh well.

I hate drama, save that tripe for the movies.