Demo Day 4

For those that are counting, it's technically Day 6 of the project, but we did nothing on Wednesday evening (bball game) and Friday evening (dinner and grocery shopping). What a week! I've got quite a story from tonight, but I'll ease into it with pleasant news first. Our cabinets are coming soon, our floor is waiting to be picked up this week, and we have 2 out of 4 appliances. We went with Clark's scratch & dent stock and found both the cooktop and wall oven we were looking for and saved over $400.00! The oven was still in the box; just in as a "changed our minds" item. The cooktop scratch is on the underside where it will go unseen, so we felt really good about those two steals. Still need to get the fridge and dishwasher.

So today, we worked hard to basically finish demolition, with the exception of the main wall frame we're removing. We have to wait until next weekend to bring home and install the engineered lumber beams that will replace the wall. Everything else is down to the bone and ready for reconstruction. This evening, we worked to install our new front and back doors. Here's the whammy..... The back door went in with no major issues and looks fine. It just needs finished off with some trim work. We took a short break for supper and then decided to go after the front door. Just as Andy removed the old door and threshold, a severe thunderstorm blew in from out of nowhere and slammed us for all we were worth! We scrambled to close windows and put something in the doorway (the 2 old doors propped up!), then ran to the driveway to get the oven we'd picked up this afternoon out of the truck and into the garage. By then, we were experiencing straightline winds and I came around the driveway to see Andy looking fit to be tied. A branch had just snapped off of the neighbor's tree and done a swan dive, butt end first, into our car's windshield. Down in the bottom corner, it was shattered like a golf ball had hit it. Poor Andy was beside himself; I just kept telling him, "this is something we can deal with... It was out of our control..." We waited out the very worst of the squall line and resumed the door installation in some steady rain and occasional power flickers. After a much more difficult installation, including many references to how jacked up and non-square our house is, we finally got the front door in. It looks super; just needs some paint! By the time we were cleaning up to prepare for bedtime, the windshield had gotten worse and spidered much further. We put in a request to Safelite to see about getting it replaced tomorrow. What a bummer.

So today's our anniversary...what a memorable day! Last night, we did squeeze in our annual dinner at The Melting Pot and it was fantabulous! Can you believe it's been 12 years? I love him crazy and I know that, one day, we'll look back on this remodel and all its little quandries and laugh about them! Well, it's late and I could get a wake up call from the glass repair fellas in the morning. I'll try to get some end-of-demo pictures up this week before we start on drywall.