Demolition Man

Yesterday was demo day for the kitchen and if it wasn't for a little wet dry wall mud we'd be laying some floor down. I think Wednesday will be a good day to start laying the planks. Removing the cabinets was easy, but the floor was a different story. I had a crash bar and a spud bar on hand for the job and it took a good three hours to get the two layers of linoleum, a quarter inch sheet of plywood and a three quarter inch sheet of particle board up and out to the front yard, but good things don't come without some blood (none), sweat (lots) and tears (none yet). : )

Here's a few before, during and after demo pictures.

Our kitchen never looked so good.

Texas BBQ

Susan and I went to San Antonio this past weekend for her ??'th High School reunion. It was suggested I take out the number of years for her reunion and since I like my life as is, I complied. : )  We got to visit and stay with her brother Jimmy and his wife Martha in the Casita. The place is super nice. We also visited with our niece Shannon and her husband Damion. But Lauren, their daughter was the best part of the trip. Well maybe? Family and friends are nice, but the food was the kicker. We ate out for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. It was AWESOME!  Lauren was fun to be around and at 16 months she's bordering the perfect age of two years old. Highly mobile and interested in everything. Visiting my buddy Gonz (Steve) and Mary D was great as well. I had to remind myself how to go to bars, drink beer, throw darts and shoot the shit. It was tough to remember, but I managed. It's always nice to back to Texas, but the humidity is still a killer for me so I'll take the clouds of the North West any day of the week.

 

Lauren wasn't too happy while I was holding her, but when I kicked in my charm she was fine.

 

Here she is in a much better mood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kitchen

I forgot to mention on the earlier posts about our kitchen project. The cabinets are built, the doors and drawer fronts on ordered and we're planning on doing the demo next weekend.

Funny

So we're all watching TV tonight and the State Farm commercial comes on with all the rep's sitting on top of the roof. You know, the one when the dude falls and rolls down the roof line. My family tells me I'm a bit on the strange side because every time I see it, I laugh. And then, Bek laughs at me because I'm laughing at the commercial and then we all start to laugh at each other. Jaz thinks there's something wrong with our gene pool.  I'm easy to entertain.