Supposedly, it goes down today. I’ll believe it when it happens. It’s been ten days, with a neurotic carpenter and a young, not very responsible replacement.
UPDATE: Seen hide nor hair of our replacement by 3:00. Told contratctor I want a replacement for the replacement. He’s for bringing back the neurotic tomorrow. Sigh.
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It’ll be about three hours, said the leader of the kitchen-painting crew. A two-man operation for a smallish kitchen. Big for the mini-rancho but small most everywhere else. Oh joy! We can finally move our cabinet stuff off the floor and back in place. When it dries. But it’s spray, so it’ll dry quick.
UPDATE: Then the leader disappeared, leaving the helper to struggle on with covering stuff not to be spray painted with paper, and the contractor was incommunicado. Upshot, a day later, the kitchen still isn’t painted.
Rebuilding the cabinets is taking time. New ones would have been easier and maybe less expensive but we liked the configuration of the old ones, 35 plus years old, so we opted to replace the old, cheap composite shelves for new plywood. Then to repaint bright white, inside and out, which isn’t fashionable anymore but we like it.
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When they post wide-angle pictures of apartments at Neely’s Canyon, making small rooms look gigantic. Though I suppose more than a casual observer could figure that out. Still. Why do it unless the aim is deception? Bait & Switch.
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Our carpenter bailed on our kitchen remodel at the mini-rancho at Neely’s Canyon about a third of the way through. Our contractor brought in another one and a plumber to install the new porcelain-on-cast-iron sink, which he did last night, so that’s working again. New carpenter comes today to complete rebuilding the cabinets.
The original carpenter told the contractor he was “bored” working a rebuild instead of an original. It could be a neurosis, according to the contractor, since the guy’s behind on two other rebuilds as well. But it may be it’s the kitchen’s curse on craftsmen. That’s because we already lost a previous carpenter, a little guy we called the leprechaun, who measured and promised and then bailed before even starting. Could be this second guy was infected, too.
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Kitchen remodeling got held up by ordering of laminate (formica) countertop. Finally in and work set to begin tomorrow. Also lots of rain Tuesday night and more on Wednesday when the work should still be going on—refurbishing of cabinets, painting and crown and window molding.
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A small, red one about an inch long, in our bedroom at Neely’s Canyon. I smashed and flushed it. Called Bugmaster for a re-treat. They’ll come on Monday.
That’s four I’ve seen since we moved into the Mini-Rancho: three red ones (one big, 5-incher) and one brown. The sting of the browns are said to hurt less but I don’t want either one. Will continue to shake out my shoes and other clothes in the morning. I worry most about our kitty getting hurt, and Bar who pads around the place barefoot while I wear shoes.
UPDATE: I’ll let Bugmaster continue, since it kills the bugs scorpions eat, but for the little bastards themselves, I’ve ordered an insecticide praised by reviewers in Arizona, land of millions of them.
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