Eve of Destruction

Even though Barry McGuire's 1960s protest song, "Eve of Destruction" was banned from many American radio stations, it still became a major hit.

Well, speaking of major hits, the kitchen took one for the team yesterday, without any protest from me! It's interesting what can happen in just nine hours. I went to work in corporate America as usual. Larry did what he has a tremendous talent for - beautification! But, like most things in life, something has to be destroyed before it can return as beautiful.

Before we can put our new ceiling in, he needed to remove the ceiling beams, ceiling trim and oak shelves around the soffit (which by the way, I've always loved). He'll also need to extend the soffit for placement of the new cupboards. Sounds easy enough, and to look at the pictures, it seems easy, but you gotta remember that we live in a house where craftsmen build things to last for 100's of years.

Coming home after a "hard day at the office" was exciting. Seeing the beginning of the destruction meant that my new kitchen is a reality! Seriously, I can live with the mess (which by the way is minimal when Larry is crew chief - I'd hire him just for the fact that he cleans up at the end of every day of work), in order to have what I know will be a beautiful kitchen. So, beautiful in fact, that I just hope my girlfriends aren't so jealous of the results that they stop talking to me!

It's 6 a.m. the day after destruction - curious to see what day two will bring?