Cold Weather has arrived

Cold weather hit the midwest yesterday and today with flurries and high winds the last two days. I am off to Milw early tomorrow morning and then off to Minn on Wed / Fri afternoon to introduce my new DM to the staff and crew in Maple Grove. This weekend I still managed to get the hood vent in over the stove yesterday and the outside vent on and caulked. We also hung the ceiling fan and got the electrical covers on, so things are shaping up. I am working on a slide show to post, so it might be a while before I post more pictures. Marilee is working on another option for her boutique. We will have another meeting with the "other option" tomorrow night when I get back from Milw and she may be moving her business before Thanksgiving! Marilee's new business logo attached -- all for now!!

TGIF 10/2408

Glad this week is over.. My boss and his boss were in town and we had customer visits in Chicago, East Peoria IL and Milw WI - 700 miles from Tuesday AM until Thursday PM.. Good to be home today. The picture posted is from last weekend when Grace, Owen, Aaron and Sara were here to visit. Sara actually wrote us a rap song to go with the picture -- pretty funny!! I am not sure that Sara should give up her day job though!

LITTLE "O' AND THE BIG SHOW'S LATEST RELEASE HAS TOPPED THE CHARTS!!!"YO! YO! MY NAME IS "O" AND IM HERE TO SAY, I WANNA BE A RAPPER IN A REALLY BAD WAY! HERE WITH MY CHAIN DON'T YOU WANNA JOIN MY GANG? CAUSE THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB IS THE KICK AND IM IT! PEACE OUT HOMMIES!"WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY BIG MAMA KING(is that how you spell hommies?)

Have a great weekend..

Kitchen 08 #2

In less than 35 days we are back in operation.. Craigslist.com is a wonderful thing! Marilee found this kitchen when looking for a display for her new boutique / salon ( more on that later) The best part is that all I had to do was tear out the old kitchen and replace a couple of windows. Its wierd having workers in your house when you have always done the work yourself! The second best part was that all we had to pay is $1500 for them to uninstall the kitchen, load it up and haul it to Villa Park AND re install the kitchen, including the marble countertops! I will post more pictures later and some of you will get to see it in person in November! Now, it didnt all fit.. we have two cabinets in the garage that we didnt have room for, and some trim pcs to fill in.. but it is in working order now!! This is a view of our eat in area - note that we changed from wood to tile floor and these were two other cabinets we didnt think we were going to be able to use.

Starting something new

To All - since my daugher-in laws have posted blogs about my grandkids and my "older" brother have done the same, blogging.. I decided to give this a shot! We just re habbed our kitchen and I thought it would be a good place to start.. Not sure how much time I will have for this, but we'll see. I sure enjoy the kids updates!

First Picture -- still looking for a picture of what it looked like B4 this one...

more to follow