I think I’m making progress on the cabinets. I only have 4 doors and 2 roll-out shelves that have don’t have any coats of varnish on them! All the rest, 12 drawers, 6 doors and 5 roll-out shelves all have 2-4 coats on them, the cabinet frames and the island has 4 or more coats on them. I’m glad I went with a water base Varathane, and spent the money on a good brush.

We’ve been misting the grout every so often, so that it dries slowly (going to get a grout haze remover tomorrow). Still looks good! As I get more of the drawers into the cabinets I am so happy with our “New Cabinets” and all that goes with them. The windows look really good.

Did some clean up today and reorganized all the tools and materials we’ve gathered for the project. Getting ready to put up the new redwood trim and new siding. Randy had already painted trim with primer and I got a coat of the stain on. The siding is already primed. We learned a lot the first time around, that’s for sure. Randy got the scaffolding up by the back door and part way down the stairs……..it looks very hairy/scary, but it is very steady. He started taking down the fascia boards and putting up the backing he needs to put up the new siding. We have been looking at craftsman-designed homes for, well a long time. We have found the design for the corbels we both like! I just realized that we found them on a house that is across the street from the guy that built our cabinets! That’s a little weird, but then it just shows how you should always be looking anywhere and everywhere for the answer, when you’ve asked for help.

I took a slew of pics of the kittens today. They were playing in a pile of leaves I had just raked up. They looked like they were having so much fun. Even mama kitty BooBoo jumped in with them…..it looked like she took them for a walk after that. I’ve never seen that, well in cartoons maybe.

As I’m writing this I see why my back hurts, I didn’t mention all that we did today either, I need to go lie down.

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