One man renovates; all women suffer!

Rona sales suck! They put the flooring we wanted, ON SALE this week, so Billy decided the time was right to replace the kitchen floor. Please note, this house was built in the mid 70s and the floor in the kitchen was the last of the original flooring. The reason it was never attempted was that the kitchen had been modified about 10 years ago, and the doorway was now too small to allow the fridge to make an easy exit. All the trim around the doorway had to be removed before the behemoth unit could be moved.
Then we managed to wedge it sideways out the kitchen door to the front foyer where the rollers quit working. So we found a set that Bill had acquired and attempted to get them under the fridge. They kept sliding out as there were big round metal things underneath the backside. Talk about a stressful situation. The fridge had been unplugged for 3 hours by then. I kept suggesting that we could borrow our neighbor's dolly but he kept insisting it wouldn'’t help. Not my idea of a pleasant Saturday afternoon. Long story short: The fridge finally got moved to the living room, and all the tiles peeled off the floor very easily. Then the boards had to be screwed down as they never had been when the floor had first been laid!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You must note that these houseÂ’s were built by a company who hired a bunch of my teenaged friends to spend a few summer pretending to be contractors. I guess I canÂ’t blame them as they were young and usually drunk or high the majority of the time.
So this is what the floor looks like now:

I cant wait to post the after pictures! Now our place looks like a hillbilly house...fridge in the living room:

The highlight of my day was watching the sun come up this morning, reflecting off a very calm and still lake:

Hope tomorrow is a better day than today!