Naked* Kitchen Photos
We have cleaned everything out of the soon to be operated on kitchen. So here are some photos of the room naked and prepped for rejuvenation surgery.
*Blatant ploy for search engine generated hits.
Caching In Palm City
We got up early this morning and took a long walk in my sister-in-law’s neighborhood. While on the loop we found a couple of caches. Donna found both. The first one she walked right up to and made the find. On the second I looked and looked and didn’t see it. Donna stepped in right after I gave up on a spot and took one look. She immediately said, “I got it.”
As we were signing the log a older couple who were walking their dogs passed by and asked what we were up to. We told them about caching and the man said I’ve got something to tell you and he said:
A man is dining in a fancy restaurant, and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket towards the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.
“Oh my, I am sooo sorry,” the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. “Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you,” she says.
They enjoy a wonderful dinner together and afterwards the theater, followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh; she shares her deepest dreams, and he shares his. She listens.
After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap… and stay for breakfast the next morning. The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings.
The guy is amazed. Everything had been incredible. “You know,” he said, “you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?”
“No, she replies, “You just happened to catch my eye.”
I sighed at the pun, but Donna had the last laugh, as she said to him, “I thought you were going to tell us that is how you meet your wife.”
29,000 Palm Trees
As soon as we got into Florida we took the second exit off I-95 and got on A1A heading east towards the ocean where we had a picnic lunch on the beach in the city of Fernandina Beach. Because we were not in any hurry we just stayed right on A1A all the way to Daytona Beach Shores where we are spending the night over looking the Atlantic Ocean from the sixth floor of the Holiday Inn Express (mmm, cinnamon buns.)
In the early part of the trip along the coast we get a very short (0.9 mile) ferry ride across the St Johns River between Fort George Island and Mayport Village. It departs every 30 minutes on the 1/4 & 3/4 hour and costs a whopping six bucks. We arrived, pulling up behind 2 waiting cars, with 6 minutes to sailing, talk about great timing.
Just north of Daytona Beach the Purple Whale passed the 29,000 mile mark.
Emperor’s New Clothes – Literally
Dumpster Day is Friday. It’ll be placed in front of the garage for ease of use, so if we want to use the Miata during the BKR it needs to spend a month outside. To keep the neighborhood felines from leaving footprints or anything else behind on car I decided to buy a nice little car cover. As long as it doesn’t get to dirty or damaged I should be able to recoup around 50% of my purchase price by selling it once the dumpster is gone.
Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1199
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1199
Some Final Preparations
A week ago with the cabinet guy we decided to make our normal depth refrigerator appear to be counter depth by bumping out the cabinet next to it. That meant we needed to order a longer than 24″ panel to finish off the left side. When we left cabinet guy he said he would get it written up and he would call me and get my credit card over the phone. He was late for his next appointment. The call never came.
Mid-week Donna called the store and our cabinet guy wasn’t there, but some other cabinet guy said he thought that our cabinet guy probably ordered it and used our card that was on file from the big order. Nothing ever hit our card, so today we went over to Lowes to straighten things out. Once again, our cabinet guy was not there, so back up cabinet guy spent 20 minutes redoing what our cabinet guy did last week. Only he followed through, he ordered the panel and I went up front and paid for it. Now hopefully it will get here in a timely manner.
I then came home and finished up the last real purchase needed for the BKR, under cabinet lights.
Tonight I removed all the doors off the old cabinets, while Donna pulled out the contents and placed the stuff in three piles; one in our makeshift kitchen in the dining room, another in a pile for Goodwill and the rest in the trash can. Our next door neighbor has a couple rentals places and he said he could possibly find use for the doors, so they are now stacked up on the back deck along with the interior doors and ancient screen doors that were stashed in the attic and the two of us comically removed from there on Saturday. If he doesn’t take them, they will go in the dumpster after it arrives next Friday.
Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1198
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1198
Pulp-O-Mizer
Thanks io9 for pointing me to this spectacular time waster – Create your own pulp magazine covers with the Pulp-O-Mizer Once you have finished devising your magazine you can cheap out and just download the low-res image like I did or you can get it printed on a poster, on a coffee mug, an iPad cover, etc.
After you’ve made a magazine cover, or not, check out Retropolis, the art of the future that never was where you can get all kinds of products that capture that 30’s & 40’s vibe of what they envisioned today would look like.
Kitchen Before Photos
Here is our soon to be remodeled kitchen. The cabinets are original to the house. As is the yellow tile counter top and back splash. The floor is currently covered in dark blue commercial grade carpet and there is at least 2 layers of vinyl under that, who knows what is further down. Currently the dishwasher is the old fashioned manual kind.
If all goes according to plan in about a dozen days this will be an empty room, maybe even just a skeleton. D-Day is February 11th.
