I’m in ‘kitchen heaven’, but totally exhausted from getting up at 6:15 am. Good thing I did, as the appliances came at 7:30. Brian had to borrow the electrician’s wire cutter to clip the water line on the frig as the Home Depot guy didn’t.
It took me an hour to clean up the cardboard and the junk around the yard this morning. The old cabinets are feeling rain for the first time in over 46 yrs tonight.
I have to get a nice step stool as I can only reach the lower two shelves on the upper cabinets. I started to load up the cabinets and had to give it up.
Sean rented some movies, one of which was Dreamer with Dakota Fanning, a cute horse story like Seabiscuit. He knows I like her and it was ‘feel good’ flick.
I’ll get the kitchen tidied up a bit and take more photos to share over the weekend. I have the same ugly glue showing on the backsplash and the same floor, but everything else (not the door or window either) are new. I won’t have a sink for a few weeks, so I’ll lugging a dishpan up and down the basement steps.
Next few purchases-the backsplash tile and the Kitchen aid stand mixer-I have $125 in Macy’s gift cards for it!
Our first meal-hotdogs on the awesome smooth surface range.
Just had to leave this post to rescue Cosmo as he had gotten himself stuck in the triangle area of a corner cabinet (no countertop). I was the only one who could reach down and grab him by his the neck. I don’t even know how he knew that space was there.

Farewell to my old kitchen.

Just wait until you see what’s going in!

Yep, I’m the newest Cruise-I bet you’ve heard. And all ma and pa-(that’s TomKat to ya’ll) did was pull 4 letters out of my last name (which is a pa’s middle name, my last name, when they get hitched will be Mapother) and ma said ‘Tom baby, you think Suri is a real name?’ Ma got out the Scientology baby name book and sure enuf-I am a red rose and a princess. So appropriate.

It’s been a hectic day. I was washing the largest wall and other painted areas today with 409 out in the kitchen. I actually had to go over it with water to get more dirt off. I filled in some holes with spackling. I cleaned an area of the basement that I thought was too much for the electrician to bear, hurting myself in the process. I did a slip and fall half way up the stairs. I’ve been wearing these black leather shoes with an elastic strap and they must have been too slippery for the painted steps. I came down hard on my left knee while my upper left arm hit the railing and my head hit the hall. Luckily Sean was home and he heard my ‘oh sh*#’ and ouches. He got me some ice and I’ve been icing the various boo-boos all evening. Not surprisingly, my hard head doesn’t hurt! ; ) And the whole time I was down there I was thinking brown recluse spider as my pal Nancy sent me that nasty email showing a festering spider wound just this morning.
So I did manage to stir up a pot of spaghetti. I keep thinking ‘it’s the last time I will use this stove or oven’. Weird. Really weird was finding a paper for trash pickup up under the frig from 1989. That’s about the last time it was pulled out (stop groaning) as we put the floor tiles down by ourselves.
About the photo… I’ve been seeing a little brownish red cardinal fly out of the crepe myrtle bush under the kitchen window lately. I got the step ladder and looked through the kitchen window tonight. Lo and behold, there she was on her nest. She had a feeling someone was looking over her shoulder and flew away exposing these 3 darling blue speckled eggs. Thanks to Brian for a cool shot-through the window!

Before I forget to tell you, I haven’t even seen a cabinet door yet with the ‘fawn glaze’ finish. I did open the knobs-and they are pretty with their raised leaf design. I thought I was getting some pulls also, but I guess not. The knobs will be fine.
On Friday, Martha Stewart was given a gorgeous Easter basket by her assistant (I think) and there were a trio of brown bunnies (maybe Steiff) surrounded by eggs to ‘die’ for. She was chatting with the guy and she said, ‘where did we find the bunnies, in Chadds Ford?’ And her assistant answered ‘yes, the Chadds Ford Florist’. So I think I know which one they are referring too-in Old Ridge Village Shoppes about 20 minutes from here. Our gal MS was browsing the little stores there! It use to have the Strawberry Sampler cross stitch shop too, but they downsized and moved up the road. I haven’t been to the new location yet.
Sad event-it seems that on every holiday, especially around Easter, someone goes down in a small plane around here. A man and his grown son went out for a pleasure trip and the dad died when the plane crashed. Miraculously, the son walked away from the crash. We have the New Garden airport about 5 minutes or so up the road. So sad.
I am almost finished with the kitchen now. There is nothing in any of the cabinets or drawers. I have 3 boxes to take down the basement. All that is left in there is my hanging clock/radio (which I still want), and the key hook…and the frig. There is no room for the frig in the living room now. This is worrying me. The guys are going to have to work quickly as my appliances are coming on Friday. I am sure all the cabinets will be out of there in a few hours (crossing fingers). I believe they start with the upper cabinets in a remodel? If they can do a few of them and get that pantry closet in, I can rest easy that night. If only the house was a little larger. ; )

And so it begins:

That’s the pantry cabinet lying in front of the loveseat. There is a corner cabinet in the foreground with lots of space. But this is only a small section of the boxes.