more destruction

Rick has four days off so we are trying to get as much as possible done on the house as we can.  Today I took the old facing off of the kitchen peninsula.

and did more paint stripping of cabinet doors.  Also made dog veggies with my, er, crop of green beans...I planted them late in the season so I guess I'm lucky I got anything!

Right now, Rick is in a turkey coma and I'm eating pumpkin pie, drinking champagne and watching Monsters, Inc on TV.  Tomorrow I'll be useful.

Vegas pictures

Las Vegas appears to be working on city beautification, at least on the 15 freeway!

Once we got close to home, it started to rain and RAIN.   Southern Californians really 

do not know how to drive in any sort of weather other than dry and sunny.

I don't think I've ever seen the 91 this empty, even in the middle of the night.

I live in an HGTV house

While I was in Vegas finding out that Proxy is still too green to really take her act on the road, Rick destroyed more house...

There used to be "accent wood" on the door and the wall around it, and big decorative 

beams going from the front door to the right to the entrance to the back of the house.

Here is the top of the front door - Rick took the trim off around the 

doors and you can see where the beams used to be.

The opposite side

There was also a decorative beam near the TV end of the back of the house and when Rick took that one down, he figured out that there used to be a wall there, so there was a fifth bedroom in this house.

There was another one of those beams across here.

More decorative wood used to be here.

This is what that decorative wood looks like - I don't think I have any pictures of the 

beams - they kind of looked like the bottom portion of this picture except bigger.

So, this Thanksgiving vacation we'll be sanding, mudding and painting!  Rick also started stripping paint off of the kitchen cabinet doors and I'll work on that during the week.  I'll be very glad to get "new" cabinet doors!

sigh

Update to my last post, I have apparently either injured myself (doctor thinks no) or am having an RA flare (may find out on Monday) due to the Flatcoat WC/X test last weekend.  I ran setup/test/pickup/bye dog and did some training on both Friday and Saturday, and stayed too long on Saturday.  At some point during the weekend I woke up in the morning to a very swollen knuckle on my left hand, one of the ones closest to the hand not out on a finger.

 

This is it after a course of steroids and anti-inflammatories, and mid day when it is at it's least irritated.  I cannot close nor open the hand all the way, and I probably shouldn't be typing with it.  ;-)  But damn it's boring not being able to do anything!  I don't use it in the mornings at all and very little the rest of the day.  It most likely will turn out to be another indication that I cannot do much in the way of field work anymore...

For something much better - Kitty!

I thought she was awfully cute with her paws over her eyes and took a picture...
 

Apparently, she didn't think much of that!  ;-)