Kittens and Kitchens and Paint, Oh My!!!

Here we are with the house starting to really look like just that...a HOUSE not a compound. We have been painting the exteriors, which is zero fun in the summer. As a professional painter, I thought to my self (and out loud) "Oh, painting the house will be a piece of cake! I paint for a living!" I actually looed at one wall of the back house and told Warren I could paint it start-to-finish in 15-20 minutes. Oh, exterior painting, damn you. So not the same as interior painting. Not only is it super hot outside, and the paint gets all gummy and disgusting, the exteriors of the houses were all sprayed with Spray-Tex by Sears many years ago, and that stuff sucks up paint like I suck up wine with my mom or girlfriends. Like a lot is what I mean. So that's extending the process. But it's getting done. I'd say we're about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way done painting the exteriors. The insides of the eaves are the most time consuming part. A lot of trim and cutting in. Ugh.

On to the kitchen: We have the granite countertops installed on our custom cabinets (yours truly did her magic to make a funky eclectic look out of 2 mis-matched styles of cabinetry (Again, I am obsessed with the Damask wallpaper inserts). Our plumber, Peter can be seen here hooking up the cast-iron sink. This was a fun job for him, because his past work at our house involved digging ditches for gas and water lines, fixing leaks galore, repairing "tweaker plumbing" which is a line that runs maybe 12" but has 5-6 different materials in use. He's probably quite happy to see us at the end of the road soon! If you need a plumber let me know, I highly recommend Peter!

And Kittens: We found a litter of 3 kittens behind the garage last week. We have 2 kittens already, and if you didn't know, they're not the original 2. Our little orange kitty DJ from the pics in earlier blogs was vehicular cat-slaughtered (hit by a car) in front of our house a month and a half ago, and we adopted another kitty to keep Sonja company. Well, we found this litter, and a home for one on the first day, and have a taker for one more when our old neighbor gets back into town, and may end up with one of them. They're more than adorable, and when the house is done we have room for them, and are going to eventually put in an electronic fence so there are no more accidents. But yeah, we're those people that are remodeling our house down to the studs, dealing with 4 kittens. At least they're adorable and lift our spirits, because this is grueling work.