Weather-Shortened Weekend

Mother nature did her best to make sure we didn't get any work done on the house, sending an ice storm across the state of Missouri this weekend. Not wanting to face a shut-out, we braved the elements and made the drive north to the country estate. Even if we couldn't put in two solid days of work, by God, we were going to get SOMETHING done.

Forecasts called for things to get nasty Saturday afternoon, so we figured we had a few good hours in the morning to knock out some projects. We made it to the house at 10:00 am, and made surprising progress in 2 1/2 hours. I managed to get the ceiling fans wired and spinning with the help of my new voltage tester from Home Depot. Satisfied that the house wasn't going to burn down, we turned our attention to the kitchen. Earlier in the week, Kendra had supervised the delivery of our new fridge and cooktop (as previewed in an earlier post), and I must say that the fridge sits astride our kitchen like a Colossus:

The thing seems huge, but I think that's just because we had gotten used to not having a fridge in there.

By the end of our workday, we were able to get the kitchen about 95% cut in, too. With some good weather, and some hard work, we should be able to get the remainder of the walls painted, and the cabinets primed and painted this weekend. That would make the kitchen pretty much "done," and just leave two bedrooms upstairs to be painted.