Well under way....

I tried to post some pictures and that didn't go too well. Will have to play with it later and post some. I am not the most computer savvy person in the world...just slow.

Let's see....The doorway to the dining room is cut out. And low and behold, what did we find, but the gas line running right down the middle of the doorway....poop. Oh well, they got that moved today after much gnashing of teeth...it was a very icky job. Up in the attic one minute and down in the crawlspace the next. Everyone expected it to run up from under the house and the stupid thing runs down from the attic.

The "vestibule" is all framed in and is really cool.

The wiring is just about done. Can lights are positioned and wired, circuits are run for the fridge, microwave, the range hood, and added switches for over sink lights. They got the phone jack lowered so I don't have to sit the phone on a pile of phone books to reach the plug (dinky short cord or way too long cord wadded up on the counter). I think I will have some extra receptacles when all is said and done. Oh, and got the circuit run for the range hood and figured out what all that is gonna take to install.

I was doing some research on the laptop out in the family room and kinda rubbed my elbow along my side and a damn bee nailed me! Hurt like a son of a gun!!! Jim had to knock him off my arm..the damn thing had his stinger buried in my arm and couldn't get loose. I had hold of the laptop with one hand and couldn't drop it to knock the stupid bee off my arm. Jeez. I had a nice fat welt where the venim was pumped in...that has flattened out now, but it is still a big red spot and kinda hot. Stupid damn bee. I haven't been stung in years....can't say that now...hee hee.

Tomorrow they start rocking. Hanging drywall that is. They are gonna fix a few cracks and such and have to replace all the rock they cut away to chase wires, pipes and such. They will frame in the doorway to the diningroom and cut out the doorway to the vestibule (mini mud room) and finish frame it and rock everything. Jim thinks they will start taping and mudding on Monday. Looks like I am going to have to paint ceilings whether I like it or not. Lots of drywall work on the ceiling.

I should be able to paint (prime) everything next weekend I hope. He is bringing the baseboarding in too and I can get a coat or two of paint on them also. Shouldn't take too long to slap a coat of paint on the baseboarding...can do that after work.

Well, I gotta go get sleepy. My ACM at work starts tomorrow and I need my beauty sleep. ACM is bi-annual maintenance time we get to tear into big projects on the line. We tear machines apart, replace lots of parts and put them back together. Hopefully it all runs after that. That is the plan anyway... hee hee.

Later.....

Well, the Numbers are in....

I have gotten both bids for cabinets and construction....and I am underway!!! Both were below what I was expecting and I am tickled to death. Now the hard part starts....the packing up of all this junk! I have to pack the kitchen, of course, and the dining room and the family room and the foyer antique buffet and the back bedroom, so I have somewhere to stick all the other packed up stuff. The truck will have to vacate the garage until this is all over as the appliances will move out there and the demolition junk will move out there. Oh this is gonna be a big mess!!!!

Oh well, I will love my new kitchen all the more for living thru the mess. Ellen says this is so. (She just finished getting her kitchen gutted to the studs and redone) And Alex is coming down this next week to job hunt and help me pack....bless her little red head. I sooooooo appreciate the help! I have way, way too much "stuff"........

I am typing this on my new laptop. I bought a Dell Studio 17". I like it so far, but am having trouble getting things to run on it. Am totally fed up with trying to get the wireless thing going...can't get this thing to pick up the router signal when it is sitting right next to the damn thing. I am about ready to pitch both out the window. Won't, but would like to. No games work, my free security won't work (had to buy Mcafee, which toasts my crackers real bad), can't get anything all the way uninstalled if I want to get rid of it.....aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggghhhh!!!!! I am not a guru by any means and need the assistance of one...my neighbor is a guru and I think I will let her play with this to see if we can't get some of the programs I want to run on this. The wireless thing I need real bad when construction starts...I have to move my living space to my bedroom and I want this in there with me.

Am up in the middle of the nite again....maintenance day has grown to two shifts in the next day or so and 4 more on the weekend. This is not good...being down on the weekend...we are supposed to be a continuous line..that means 24/7...and we are fastly approaching a 5-2 line...5 days a week (if that now) and 2 days down on the weekend. Not good. So I am stewing about getting everything put together and my head won't let me sleep. So I am up and going to work in a little while. I have to get my premaintenance day presentation together this morning and it doubled to 2 shifts just before I went home yesterday afternoon. Another aaaaarrrrrrgggghhh.

Well, gotta go get dressed, fed, teeth brushed and out the door. Have fun!!