yellow is mellow

work continues in the dingstrom kitchen.  Although things have slowed down considerably in the last week (see next post on our beautiful autumn in alaska and you can see why we didn’t want to stay in and work) we have gotten quite a bit done since my last post.

we started painting

with lots of needed help

we tore up the underlayment in the kitchen

it started off good and fun with greg on the crowbar and me with the vice-grips pulling staples

and then we came across this graveyard of staples needing to be pulled

8 hours later and exhausted

but of course there’s always time to share a snack with friends

Greg installed new electrical boxes and phone cords around the kitchen

with his dad’s help we put the kitchen light back up and finished all the electrical work

all new paint too!

We are currently prepping the floor to lay cork. It started last week and has continued through this weekend as little ten minute sessions until we realize that maybe we don’t know what we’re doing so we stop to talk about it….and then go for a hike instead.

~ by kmdingman on September 20, 2009.