Let the fun begin.

Well, it's been a week since the last posting and only a few things have changed. We've met with the general contractor and signed the "contract". We'll have a meeting next week with the general contractor and the head carpenter to go over logistics. Where to put the dumpster and more importantly where to put the port-a-john. It'll be about two months of no kitchen but it's so going to be worth the wait.

We've spent most of the Thanksgiving weekend boxing up the kitchen. Who would have thought we could accumulate so much crap. We found cookie sheets from Syracuse. Why, I don't know, but they're were in the cupboards. The only ones that had any fun with this packing was the cats. For every cabinet that was emptied it was a new place to explore and shut a door on your brother cat. That's right, you don't know about our cats.

Let me digress for a couple, we have three gray cats, they're siblings and identical. Milo, the brave but not so smart one, is the most curious and friendly. He's our bull in the china shop. Then there's Manny, Mr. Sweet Tooth, he's the chicken. He also is a major sweet freak. His claim to fame is he likes to close doors and these cabinets have been a major joy to him as he closes his brothers in the cabinets. Finally there's Maddox. He's a sweet demon. Remember Shrek 2's Puss-n-Boots? The big sweet eyes, that Maddox. He'll give you that sweet look, just after he's been into mischief He's the smart one of the group, urging Milo into one mess after another.

Anyway, back to the kitchen. We've managed to clear most of one wall, and a few drawers. Though we did have to break down and hit the U-Haul store for boxes. Some of the fun of the packing (did I say fun????) has been trying to determine what we'll need while the remodel is going on and what can be sealed up in the boxes.

I'll be posting some pictures of the before the remodel as soon as the packing is done.