Slow, But Steady

That's how you could describe our adventure in renovations! Dave and I are working together very well - no fights at all!! We work for a while each day and accomplish something on our list. We have quite a way to go to call our work done - but we'll get there.

Here's a sneak peak of the ALMOST done kitchen.

Call Off the Search Party

I'm still here. Just still in the middle of a mess.

I've got some good help. Didn't want to disturb them while they were working - gotta keep 'em moving!

I've been washing these.

Getting ready for this.

More to come - if I'm not too tired when it's done.

CHANGE - It's a Comin'

Betcha thought this was going to be a political commentary, didn't ya? Well, change is coming - but I'm only speaking of MY house. I've been too busy to give you the benefit of my rantings and ravings because my kitchen looks like this:



And this is a picture of how it looked a few days ago. Today it looks much worse and there's a heck of a lot of sawdust covering a lot of surfaces and inside my cabinets! The slow part is deciding what to do. Here's a sample of the decision-making process:




This isn't exactly what we ended up with, but it's similar. So, until I get done in, oh, say about SIX MONTHS, you may not hear from me so much! But then again, you might

ON THE WAY TO THE GROCERY STORE...

...we bought this!

Seriously. Yesterday, we had gone to Lowes and we were supposed to be heading to the store. Dave wanted to "run by" and see what they had on the lot. I take part of the blame here. The deals have been phenomenal and we were going to need a truck soon anyway. It has been said by me many times over the past few months - "if someone had the money, now would be the time to get a smokin' deal." Well, apparently Dave DOES listen to what I'm saying. Who knew.

Anyway, we get to the lot, look around and find this big blue beauty sitting there. Now, in our previous discussions of what we'd get if we could pick anything we wanted, blue was like number 4 on my list of colors. Red was "forget it - I'll drive the green Dakota 'til there's nothing' left!" White was "we already have a white car, let's get something different." The top choices were mineral gray, black and tan. Well, they had a black one. So black even the grill was black. That was unattractive. It was a V6 - unattractive to Dave. So, that left majorly loaded red at a little higher price than we wanted to spend (whew - I lucked out!), white and our blue beauty. So, we drove it and haggled. Well, as much haggling as Dave will do - he told the guy after the second "come back" that he was done, here was what he'd pay and if you can't do it, we're outta here! Guess you can tell who won that one.

This is a great truck that we got for about 40 pecent off the price. It is more loaded that we even knew. I'm not kidding. We were driving down the road today and I asked what this one button did. I assumed it was a latched hide a key tray or something. Dave didn't know and pushed the button and the back window slides open. Yup, we got ourselves an automatic back door slider! That and a readout that tells us what our last jaunt took in miles per gallon, how many miles we have left before we have to get gas, the direction we're headed, etc. Seriously loaded.

Oh, and we did make it to the grocery store today. Didn't get as much as we would have yesterday!