It's 3:00am - What the....?

(apologies to Clement Moore)

It's the week before Christmas
and Sandy's asleep,
dreaming of presents and
snow storms so deep.

Around 3:00 a.m.,
there came a loud sound,
Sandy jumped out of bed,
her feet hit the ground....

Running quick down the hallway,
she saw a great light,
from the kitchen she saw,
the new floor shining bright.

A giggle erupted,
laughter ensued,
Sandy screeched to a halt,
what a sight did she view!



The moose and the others
had gathered to toast,
the new kitchen floor
of which they could boast.



"Isn't it gorgeous!" Bunny exclaimed,
"The stoves really love it!" Moose proclaimed.
I just shook my head
and heaved a great sigh...
and off back to bed
I did fly.

...I so have to get a job with the Muppets...!

It's 3:00am - What the....?

(apologies to Clement Moore)

It's the week before Christmas
and Sandy's asleep,
dreaming of presents and
snow storms so deep.

Around 3:00 a.m.,
there came a loud sound,
Sandy jumped out of bed,
her feet hit the ground....

Running quick down the hallway,
she saw a great light,
from the kitchen she saw,
the new floor shining bright.

A giggle erupted,
laughter ensued,
Sandy screeched to a halt,
what a sight did she view!



The moose and the others
had gathered to toast,
the new kitchen floor
of which they could boast.



"Isn't it gorgeous!" Bunny exclaimed,
"The stoves really love it!" Moose proclaimed.
I just shook my head
and heaved a great sigh...
and off back to bed
I did fly.

...I so have to get a job with the Muppets...!

Laying of the Floor - 3 hours and Counting!

Johnny the plumber is fixing the leaky pipe under the sink
(we have one of those real old, cast iron double basins!

Sasha and his young apprentice

are laying the tiles!

Here's the sink all done

(look at that shiny pipe!)

And the adhesive is down for

the next section of the floor!

Laying of the Floor - 3 hours and Counting!

Johnny the plumber is fixing the leaky pipe under the sink
(we have one of those real old, cast iron double basins!

Sasha and his young apprentice

are laying the tiles!

Here's the sink all done

(look at that shiny pipe!)

And the adhesive is down for

the next section of the floor!

On This Night, a Year Ago...

...I lost dad. No. It's not what you're thinking. Literally. I lost him somewhere between JFK airport and Park Slope Brooklyn. Now I can look back and smile. But then - Oy Vay! And, for the Freudian's in the room, perhaps it was all the result of the unconscious messaging to us all that dad would soon no longer be with us.

So, if you want the story, take a look back to my January 2, 2008 blog.

On an up note - the stoves have made their floor selection! The men are supposed to be here (seven minutes ago) and by this afternoon, Voila! Should I worry that the building manager has yet to call us and ask us how many boxes of tile to buy? :>) Hark! I hear the door bell! Let the remodeling begin!

On This Night, a Year Ago...

...I lost dad. No. It's not what you're thinking. Literally. I lost him somewhere between JFK airport and Park Slope Brooklyn. Now I can look back and smile. But then - Oy Vay! And, for the Freudian's in the room, perhaps it was all the result of the unconscious messaging to us all that dad would soon no longer be with us.

So, if you want the story, take a look back to my January 2, 2008 blog.

On an up note - the stoves have made their floor selection! The men are supposed to be here (seven minutes ago) and by this afternoon, Voila! Should I worry that the building manager has yet to call us and ask us how many boxes of tile to buy? :>) Hark! I hear the door bell! Let the remodeling begin!

I'm floored! Xmas for our Kitchen

The saga of our kitchen continues! Some of you know the story of how and why we have two stoves (and no, we are not kosher!). Readers Digest version: we treated ourselves to new appliances several Xmas' ago and when they delivered the new refrigerator and stove, they were sans the stove. So my better half called and demanded a stove to tide us over the holiday (until the one we ordered could be delivered in January). Well...the upshot was that on December 22nd, the manager at Home Depot threw the floor model stove on the back of a truck, grabbed two guys from the back room and hauled it over and up 4 flights of stairs! Then, we called repeatedly in January, February...March for him to come and take it back...and he didn't! So we have two stoves. Merry Christmas!

This left the biggest unresolved issue: the kitchen floor. Three plus years of complaining to the building manager and demonstrating how you can see through the floor to the 3rd floor kitchen just never seemed to convince him that we might need a new floor.

Of course, we were a little conflicted, because the history of this kitchen floor is pretty cool. Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ once said mass in that kitchen, on that floor. And Caruso (the opera singer for those of you too young) once sang in the kitchen! Needless to say, I kept a little snippet of tile.

So! The new sub floor is down and Thursday morning they lay the new flooring. And so, we get closer to closing the book on another apartment saga.

I'm floored! Xmas for our Kitchen

The saga of our kitchen continues! Some of you know the story of how and why we have two stoves (and no, we are not kosher!). Readers Digest version: we treated ourselves to new appliances several Xmas' ago and when they delivered the new refrigerator and stove, they were sans the stove. So my better half called and demanded a stove to tide us over the holiday (until the one we ordered could be delivered in January). Well...the upshot was that on December 22nd, the manager at Home Depot threw the floor model stove on the back of a truck, grabbed two guys from the back room and hauled it over and up 4 flights of stairs! Then, we called repeatedly in January, February...March for him to come and take it back...and he didn't! So we have two stoves. Merry Christmas!

This left the biggest unresolved issue: the kitchen floor. Three plus years of complaining to the building manager and demonstrating how you can see through the floor to the 3rd floor kitchen just never seemed to convince him that we might need a new floor.

Of course, we were a little conflicted, because the history of this kitchen floor is pretty cool. Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ once said mass in that kitchen, on that floor. And Caruso (the opera singer for those of you too young) once sang in the kitchen! Needless to say, I kept a little snippet of tile.

So! The new sub floor is down and Thursday morning they lay the new flooring. And so, we get closer to closing the book on another apartment saga.