Bill Roper's Journal

I expect to hear back from the contractor on Monday and we'll discuss exactly how to fix things up in the kitchen. I don't think any of this will be particularly difficult to sort out, but we'll see how it goes.

In the meantime, Gretchen and I started unpacking some things into various cabinets. The drawers are off-limits until the countertops arrive, but there are a lot of upper and lower cabinets (most of which are not under threat of being moved) that can be filled with stuff. We have a lot of stuff, although less than we did a few weeks ago.

The lower section of the pantry has lovely pull-out drawers now and they are filled with cereal, bottles, cans, and boxes of food. Things will probably move around for a while, but this is a good start. The chips and alcohol are on the first fixed shelf in the pantry, which is where the chips were before, while the alcohol has moved up one level and parted company with the cereal.

The main dishes are in a whole new cabinet, because that's pretty much the only place where they will fit comfortably. The mugs may go to join them there, but they remain in hiding somewhere. The pull out drawers on the left side of the stove are now full of pots and pans. The spice collection seems to have remained where it was, but has now pretty much taken over the first shelf of the narrower cabinet there.

Gretchen regrets the new corner cabinets, but I have not yet begun to store things away there. If I manage to use them efficiently, it will make everything look better. If I don't, well, there's the rub.

And I have acquired some lovely three-inch nickel handles for the cabinet doors, which should greatly improve our ability to open them up. :) There are advantages to using Amazon Prime sometimes.

Gretchen felt pretty lousy today in the wake of the COVID shot and spent most of the day huddled under a blanket on the couch. Neither kid ended up going to school today, but both participated remotely for a different variety of reasons.

Me? I was doing fine and back to work and a whole bunch of meetings in and around coding.

Meanwhile, our contractor replaced a bunch of damaged and/or missing drywall in the kitchen. The cabinet install is supposed to start early tomorrow morning, which means that I should consider getting some sleep soon, as I have volunteered to take the early shift.

Softball practice tomorrow looks likely to be canceled due to rain, which -- all things considered -- is probably a good thing. :)

Packing up the kitchen for the upcoming renovation proceeded apace today, because we are really running out of days and choices. The kitchen junk drawers and almost everything on the charging shelf went into boxes today. The chips were cleaned out of the pantry and placed in a large, accessible box, as we suspect that we'll be needing those next week. A lot of stuff went into the garbage, boxes for charity, or for electronics recycling.

Most of what's left to be packed is dishes and food. That will be done Wednesday night.

Fingers crossed!

Meanwhile, I found a rib roast at Mariano's which became the main course for our Easter dinner tonight. And the first of the bones made Ruby *very* happy. :)

Our kitchen renovation was supposed to start a week from today with the demolition of the current kitchen cabinets. Then the new cabinets were supposed to be installed on Saturday.

It turns out that would be over Easter weekend and the installer would really prefer not to be working then. We find this perfectly understandable.

So the renovation has been postponed by one week.

All things considered, it was probably best not to be starting this on April Fools Day.