Thursday, May 10, 2012

For the birds

In more ways than one. I do not have pictures of the kitchen project because technically it's not finished. The painting is DONE! Well, if you don't count touching up the walls. There are a couple of spots that were messed up when the granite was installed  & that whole taping to paint isn't an exact science either.

Then there are the screws. Really? Screw drama? YEP! For whatever reason all of the knobs & pulls I ordered have these ridiculously short screws. They don't work. Off to Lowe's Dean went & bought about a gazillion screws. Well, apparently, the drawers needed longer screws than the cabinets. Really? Who would've thought? Well, maybe a lot of people but not us. So another trip to Lowe's is in our future. Seriously, we really need to buy stock. This project is never ending & it's for the birds.

Speaking of Lowe's & screws, we bought this little gem awhile back for $5.
It's a screwdriver & a ratchet. I didn't know what a ratchet was until today & WOW what a concept! How did I not know about this?? The end unscrews & it has all of these neat little attachments.
There are all different sizes of flat head & phillips bits. This may be the best $5.00 we've ever spent. Well, aside from the $20 furniture dolly. That thing is amazing! Anyway, pics to come later.

I've mentioned here before about my disdain for birds. Maybe I'm weird but they freak me out a little. It may have something to do with pushing their babies out of the nest. Who does that?? Also, the fact that they do their business all over my stuff. Anyway, I was outside watering plants this evening & I discovered this on the bakers rack on my patio.
This was behind the container I keep our sunscreen in. I don't know what the attraction with our house is.

Dean was cutting grass & due to the disarray of the kitchen & the fact that we basically have no food in the house to make anything closely resembling a meal I went to McDonald's for him. I had oatmeal. As I was driving down the street I saw this.
Do you see the little lizard head hanging over my window? He was hanging on for dear life.
He rode on my car all the way to McDonald's & back. It's about a 2 mile trip each way. I'm guessing this was the equivalent of Mission Space for lizards. I tried to drive a little slower. I didn't want to be responsible for sending him flying to his death.

Toodles!


5 comments:

  1. Aww, I was hoping to see the reveal :( Guess it'll have to wait, but I'm sure it will be worth it.

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  2. Oh my the lizard riding on the car is crazy! My kids would have loved seeing that!

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  3. Totally agree about birds. I think they freak me out a little bit, too; but I think it's from the movie "The Birds" ...lol! They are so darn messy. Absolutely can't stand pigeons -- sky rats are what they are!

    Hurry up, already, & show us that new kitchen!
    CAS

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  4. Ahhhh, hahahaha. I love that you slowed down for the lizard. That is hilarious!!

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  5. My heart just jumped - I thought it was a snake head! LOL

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