sick of the stinkin’ microwave

Our kitchen used to have a recirculation system for the exhaust above the stove.  We didn’t like this so one night Greg took the handy dandy sawzall and drilled a big ‘ol hole in the outside of the house. A little disconcerting since winter is looming around the corner but Greg did a stand up job installing duct work and insulating the hole.  Greg should be the new Home Depot’s poster child for DIY projects.

We got our cabinets delivered, moved them to the kitchen, unpacked them and then realized we had six more weeks to wait because three were damaged in the shipping process.  Ah, the joys of living in the AK

Well once we stopped procrastinating we started hanging the wall cabinets. This is an example of our love/hate relationship with the sawzall. Really it’s the only tool that could do this type of  job, but its just not delicate enough for our cabinets.  The thing bounces around better than a rubber ball. This is why I stopped bracing the cabinets for greg, i like having ten fingers.

After a long weekend we finally got all the wall cabinets hung and the hood hung and installed.

last night we leveled the floor and put in the first two base cabinets. You would think its easy but leveling for those two dinky cabinets took us almost two hours.  i’m going to die cooking in this kitchen, it must be perfect. hah

In the mean time we took a quick trip out to the cabin to check on the boiler. It was a beautiful autumn day and a nice excuse to get out of our house on a saturday.

Sadie checked out the lake again…still not a swimmer yet.

Sadie also graduates from kindergarten puppy class this saturday. She’s been attending for the last six weeks and is the star of the class. That’s her playing with her brother and sister who also make everyone else look bad.

She looks really sad in this picture. perhaps its because we’re not sharing our popcorn with her.

Oh, this was also one of our evening projects. Greg turned off the water and cut our kitchen water pipes so we could slide the new cabinet in.  However, he had to solder caps onto the pipes so we could turn the water back on without finishing the fittings. The water wouldn’t stay down in the hot water pipe so when he tried to solder the cap on the pressure was too strong and it just leaked. When I got home I started blowing in the pipe like a balloon to force the water back up and drain the pipe.  You see, Greg the engineer can figure out how to cut water pipes, solder on new fittings and build new ducting for the heat ventilation system, all with no previous experience.  I just come home with stupid ideas that work 10% of the time.

~ by kmdingman on October 13, 2009.