El Productivo day at Kia Rio

Well, today was the first really productive day I have had working on the house.

Between grieving periods and just a general funk from life altering changes, I have been operating at about 30% for most of the 3 months I have been here.

Today, however, I actually finished sanding down the frame of one kitchen cabinet, putting a coat of wood conditioner on it, gave it a couple of coats of stain, sanded and spray painted the heat registers - they were awful looking to say the least - Mom has the camera so I did not get before pictures, but essentially they were rust with a little bit of black here and there. Now they are shiny black - courtesy of 2 cans of black rustoleum spray paint.

Of course, there was that run to the no-Homo Depot for the extra can of rustoleum and the wood conditioner...

Also got the first quote for window replacement - $4k - owie.

I also started trying to figure out why the garage door is not working. I think it may be a problem with the wall mounted control box. I do not have a remote for it, so I did the research and have ordered a replacement opener that will allegedly open up to 3 different garage doors. If true, I may be able to program it to open mom's garage as well.

Was going to poly the kitchen cabinet frame early tomorrow, but have decided to wait. The new fridge comes tomorrow, and I did not get around to getting the walls on those 2 sides primed and painted. This means the fridge will have to come back out to do that, so I will probably do the poly at the same time, and hopefully the other cabinets will be ready to poly -(absolutely nothing has been done to them yet...).

FYI, stripping and staining cabinets is not hard, but it is very time consuming. I discovered I am not the only crazy person who has used dental picks on the edges and trim work when stripping old paint... I also discovered that I do not know how to get the imbedded paint residue out of the wood. I tried many tricks listed on the internet to no avail, so the cabinets have some spots where there is a few white areas with little to no stain on them. C'est la vie.

Snuggie and Jaz are both on the desk with me. It is times like this when Tashi's absence looms so large.

Jaz is sitting on the mouse cord and I am starting to cry, again, so I am going to sign off and will be back in a few days with an update on the progress.

The chimney inspector is coming on Friday, so I will know if the fireplace is usable with minimal repairs or if I will just block off the flue for insulating the house better.

Sorry for typos, hard to type under current cat conditions.