Polar Bear in the Pantry

 

The Hilarity! Coldest January in about seventy years in Los Angeles---and our kitchen walls are open.

Ah, what a great memory it will be. We've put up thick sheets of plastic over the kitchen doors. It works.

The difficulty about a complete kitchen renovation is the incredible inconvenience mixed with the length of time it takes. You do something major, like demo out the old kitchen and you say, "Great. Now we're getting somewhere." Which is true. But the road is so long.

You get the plumbing and electrical taken care of and you realize, "Hell, I better just yank out the rest of the wall that they destroyed." And you do. But you still have such a huge way to go.

And then you put up some dry wall (today)-- but you still have the new window to put in. And the spackling and priming. And they haven't even come to measure for the cabinets yet.

So, the appliances will come on Friday. And they will sit in front of the new dry wall and they will all work. Including a washer and dryer (Thank goodness).

But you have to wait a few weeks while they make the cabinets. And then when they do put them in, you have to get them finished and you need the tile guy (Haven't even figured out who that is yet)...connect everything up. Get the floor refinished. Paint.

And then, it's almost summer.

And we'll remember that the walls were open when it was thirty-eight degrees.