Can You Say Extreme Kitchen Makeover?

Actually, it is kind of difficult to say it quickly - extreme kitchen makeover, after about three of them I get to "A Ku chA Kuch A Kee".

These homeowners had honey stained, oak cabinetry. Here's a cool thing - they had us fill the holes from the old handle pulls on the top cabinets and then they could switch to swanky knobs. Then we did our magic and turned their oak into their dream kitchen. I know I'm impressed and I do this for a living.

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

One early morning, way too early for normal people to be awake, the Painter took our camera. There was no one to stop him, we were all sleeping. He decided to try his hand as, “Mr. Freelance Photographer.” We were at the cabin and he found a pasture/junk yard. So now we have an entire folder on the pc filled with his junkyard “art”. The funny thing is; I kinda like it.
For a writer, these photos are great fodder. For example:

“Honey! Where is the spare mattress?”

“I think it’s leaning against the station wagon.”

“What are you talking about? I thought it was in the garage.”

“No, when the chimney blew off the roof last month after the furnace ignited your pantyhose hanging on a line between it and the copper pipes above the washing machine and the flaming ashes fell into a can of lacquer thinner which threw flames and caused that explosion in the furnace, I used the mattress to extinguish the fire and it burned up, leaving only the bedspring which I put out by the station wagon so I can drive all that stuff to the dump tomorrow.”

“Oh.”

Mom & Pop & Baby

I never thought my status as a small business owner with my husband would become a symbol plied in national politics, however disingenuous, by the politicians touting their concern for the “mom & pops”. But hey, fame is hard to come by these days, it's just that the term, mom & pop, makes me cringe; it makes me feel old.


When the Painter decided to “invest” in his new business back in 1983, the first thing on the list was a dependable and large vehicle to carry supplies. Thus, the 1973 Custom Cruiser was just the ticket. My eldest child is proud to have among her baby book photos, a picture of her on the day she was driven home from the hospital in the paint mobile. Notice the buckets and can of Glidden paint just behind her car seat. Nice ride! Who could want more?