Last day in Chattanooga

The flooring guys should be finishing up today with just a few little things left to do.  It is so exciting to see the floor finished!  Now if we can get the contractor back to finish up a few things I think we will be ready to start cleaning and putting things back where they belong.  I will have my work cut out for me!

I wanted to finish up our trip to Chattanooga over spring break.

On day 3 our first stop was Rock City.  We got an early start that morning. 

We promised Emma Taylor a stop at Starbucks and as luck would have it, there was one right at the entrance of Rock City!

Everyone was a happy camper!

  Getting started on the hike.

Fat Man's Squeeze.

The kids loved making flattened pennies.

Not much has changed since we were there years ago.  It was a lot of fun for all of us.

Some of you got a kick out of the old pictures I posted from our family trip to Chattanooga in 1989 so I thought I'd post a few from Rock City.

Here we are standing in almost the same spot as the pictures above.  This further documents that I've never had a good hair day in my life!

Fat Man's Squeeze.

Here's another cute picture from a trip to Chattanooga with my mom and dad in the summer of 1967.  I know the photo says 1968 but I guess it took me a long time to afford to have the film developed!

The little girl in the pigtails with the cap on is my little sister Karen!

One step forward, two steps back!

When the installers left yesterday my floor looked like this.

Unfortunately the installer put the old refrigerator back into its place and hooked up the ice maker again, which was the culprit of the flooding to begin with!

Within a couple of hours there was water coming out from under the refrigerator and when we stepped on the boards nearby, the glue was coming out between the cracks!  Dang...can't I catch a break??

They are back this morning taking up the floor where the water got under it.  This will set them back a bit.  I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going to make it through this project!! 

Happy birthday to my great nephew Corbin!  He turns 2 today.  He lives in Honolulu while his dad is in the military so I don't get to see him.  They will be moving back to Alabama later this year and we are looking forward to seeing them again!

Happy weekend!

Kitchen progress

I've been missing the last few days.  I am "stuck" upstairs all day if I don't go out, so that was enough incentive to do some retail therapy.  I spent Tuesday in Memphis and finally hit the new Tanger Outlet Mall there.  I did some retail therapy locally yesterday.  I can only take so much banging, sawing, and men in my house!! 

Here's the progress.

Nice pile of debris in the garage.  They are hauling it off little by little.

Don't think I'll be taking a bath anytime soon!

They left me just enough space that I can squeeze through to get to the coffee maker.

Here's the new floor going down.

I love it!!

Flooring is coming!

The flooring guys are supposed to come this morning to start the removal of the hardwood in the house.  We spent yesterday afternoon moving things...

Stuff stacked everywhere! 

It means progress though!

We spent all day Saturday at the Amory Railroad Festival.  There was a big car show there.  I think there was around 250 cars. 

It started off as quite chilly but warmed up and was a beautiful day for the first car show of the year.

Doug won a first place trophy.

Doug really couldn't care less about winning a trophy.  He's got many trophies that just clutter up his shop.  He actually missed being awarded the trophy as he thought his car was in a different class and when they called the winners and he wasn't one of them, he walked away.  Thankfully his friend Bo picked up the trophy and gave a presentation to Doug later. 

Flowers are beginning to pop out here.

I love this time of year!

Kitchen update!

The kitchen is beginning to look like a kitchen again.  The dishwasher is not in and the new refrigerator will not come in until the floor is replaced.  The flooring guys are supposed to be here Monday morning and it should take a few days for that to be done.  Backsplash has to be installed and trim around the bottom of the cabinets and floor and it should be done!!! 

So this weekend I will be packing up stuff so furniture can be moved.  This has been lots of work but I know I will be appreciative when it's all finished!

I am just about back to normal with my Bell's palsy.  I am SO fortunate to have had a light case.  My eye is actually closing and blinking now which is a huge improvement.  Thank you all for your prayers!

Have a fabulous weekend.  We are enjoying some beautiful, warm spring days.  I hear my family and friends up north are not so lucky!

Busy in the kitchen!

We are back from our trip and had a wonderful time.  I took very few pictures but it was a relaxing weekend and we ate some really good seafood! 

My cabinet doors were installed on Friday while I was gone so I will be busy today loading the cabinets up again.  I'm so excited about getting that done!

Hope you all are enjoying spring, though I know in some parts of the country it is still winter!!  Things are really blooming here.  I wish I had time to work out in the yard but I've got to get this house put back together first!