No Post Tonight. I Will Post Tomorrow.

Posted on by September 2, 2020avatar

I’m sorry about this. I try to stick to my schedule. However, my daughter’s visit along with a demand from my kitchen contractor to make a decision by tonight or he’s moving on to a new client has made this a crazy week. I also broke my toe two days ago. Our kitchen is very old and we are totally renovating it. I absolutely hate to linger on design stuff and am a contractor’s worst nightmare until they get started,. Then, I”m super nice to work with. I’m not mean. I just hate to think about the color of faucets.

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No Post Tonight. I Will Post Tomorrow. — 40 Comments

  2. OK, after your daughter leaves, you remodel the kitchen, and your toe heals, I want you to sit down and relax for a while! There will be plenty of minister/ministry scandals to cover when you return – sadly, new ones pop up everyday.

  3. Dee, what Max said. There’s always gonna be another pool boy story. OK…maybe not…but take a break, just the same!

  4. Argh, it’s coming round to the time when we’re going to get our kitchen re-done. Fortunately our cabinets are fine, so it’s mainly countertops/sink/wall/hood/oven/dishwasher. But how do you even envision what the tiles in the store will look like in your kitchen with your cabinets, and also with the new countertops which are another unknown? How do I pick a nice design to go in the empty wall space between range and hood? And now you can get a symmetrical divided sink or an asymmetrical divided sink – how do you know ahead of time how this will impact your life for the next 30 years?

  6. I can imagine your current circumstances, and I am reminded of the saying (paraphrasing): “You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time.” 🙂

  7. Rich,

    I hired a friend who is in the design business. I still don’t know what I’m doing. Yep-the tile thing is difficult. We are going to be putting it on 3 walls around the kitchen. However, I have one little thing I learned. Have you ever heard of a toe kick. You know, that piece of cabinet on the ground? You can turn that into a draers for flat items like cookie sheets, placemats, etc. Check it out. Also, do a pull out drawer under your sink. Let me know if you have questions. My lady is still mad at me, however, due to my inability to make decisions.

  8. researcher:
    I can imagine your current circumstances, and I am reminded of the saying (paraphrasing): “You can only eat an elephant one bite at a time.” LOL!!

  9. Hey, folks. Guess whose back on Twitter trying to cause some trouble. Velour!!!! Only oldies will know what I’m talking about.

  10. Muff Potter,

    I know where the Star Trek house on the beack is. I think. Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

    Rich,

    Check out Ruvati sinks. They are making them smaller and cheaper. They are neat!

  12. I just prayed for inspiration for you re. your tap / faucet colours. Aesthetics are a wonderful thing, even when we don’t have to be “bishops of bling”!

  14. dee: Guess whose back on Twitter trying to cause some trouble. Velour!!!! Only oldies will know what I’m talking about.

    I haven’t been here that long, and I do remember her having a hissy fit about something and leaving. Didn’t really make sense at the time…

  15. No Post Tonight. I Will Post Tomorrow.

    “No Boom today. Boom tomorrow. Always BOOM tomorrow.”
    — Cmdr Ivanova, Babylon-5

  16. Headless Unicorn Guy,

    You of all people would be the one to know Susan Ivanova. I mean that in the most positive way possible. I scroll through long comment threads looking for what you’ve had to say.

    That is all, back under my rock now.

  17. dee,

    Oh my, Velour! Tried to take a look-see but don’t see her anywhere. What a mess she was. Hope your toe feels better and you suddenly have a design epiphany, Dee.

  19. Rich:”But how do you even envision what the tiles in the store will look like in your kitchen with your cabinets”

    My sister & b.i.l recently bought possible kitchen tiles, photocopied them & tacked to kitchen wall! It worked for them to try out the look 🙂

  21. I have broken several toes and those first few days are agony. I smashed my big toe while moving from one apartment to another in Wake Forest. Actually dropped the closet door on it (it kept falling off the track but was a heavy oak door, kinda surprising for a cheap college apartment). A couple years later, I had a sprained ankle, and the podiatrist pointed out in the xray that my toe had shattered and didn’t heal correctly. It’s never caused me any further problems, though.

    You’re way more versed in medical stuff for me, but I hope you are able to rest it for a few days.
    .

  22. ishy: I have broken several toes and those first few days are agony.

    Indeed! The “first” time I broke my little toe, my doctor said “There is nothing I can do for it” … which alarmed me … but what he meant was he couldn’t put a cast on it. Instead, he taped it to the next toe … a treatment I later used on my daughter when she broke a toe while accompanying me on a business trip.

  23. Max: he taped it to the next toe

    Buddy wrapping! We’ve used that with fingers and toes.

    It doesn’t work with tongues or elbows.

  24. Interested,

    That’s a good idea, once we get down to a few candidates it might even do to also take tile samples to the stores with the countertop samples.

    @Dee – those under-cabinet drawers sound very handy, we’ll have to see if that’s an option for retrofit.

  25. dee: Hey, folks. Guess whose back on Twitter trying to cause some trouble. Velour!!!! Only oldies will know what I’m talking about.

    I’m an old fossil here at TWW, and I remember Velour.
    She seemed to get more and more irrational as time went on.
    Did she have a psychotic break on Twitter?

  26. I’ve been trying to save up for a kitchen redo the past several years, but every time I do I get hit with another URDGENT EMERGECNY! EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! and the money goes poof.

    I’m not thinking of a remodel so much as a cabinet refacing; the kitchen is sound, just the cabinets are worn and showing their age.

  28. Max: There seems to be a lot of that going around on social media!Probably related to too much COVID confinement.

    Don’t forget “Net Drunk Syndrome”, where on Social Media EVERYONE goes off their meds.
    COVID Cabin Fever just ramped things up, that’s all.

  29. Oh Dee, take a break, but not any more toes!

    I always wondered what happened to Velour. I had a squint at Twitter (where you know my real name & face), but can’t see her. I’m sorry to hear she’s causing trouble. Again.

  31. So sorry about your toe, Dee. I remember all too clearly what that feels like. I hope your remodeling decisions will fall into place quickly and give you a kitchen that brings you joy.

  34. Dee, so sorry about your toe. I jammed mine into the fireplace bricks in January. It hurt like crazy for about 3 days, then it took about 6 weeks to heal. But no more pain.

    I remember Velour well. She liked to stir up trouble. She posted as Michaela before she switched to Velour.

  36. We need to redo the kitchen, some functional issues, appearances too… Floor is tile, cracked from dropping iron things on it. Never again. Bamboo probably.

  37. OUCH! Dee, take a break! The church scandals will still be there when you recover.

    (I’ve been following your tweets about Velour also.)

  39. Ken F (aka Tweed): More proof that TGC doesn’t get it (not that more proof is needed). They have driven out the older people and then lament that they don’t have older people available to mentor.

    It’s true. I’ve witnessed it firsthand in my area. SBC-YRR church planters don’t attempt to attract older folks. SBC-YRR church splitters ran them all off when they took over traditional pulpits by stealth and deception. Any attempt to court them back now is to get in their pocketbooks not to engage them as mentors. Senior SBC members are primarily non-Calvinist in belief and practice – they have no desire to mentor younger folks in reformed theology.

  40. Max: Any attempt to court them back now is to get in their pocketbooks not to engage them as mentors.

    The SBC church we left a couple years ago wanted us to 1) open our checkbooks and 2) serve in the youth ministry (to teach Gospel Project material). Other than that we were expected to shut up and color. I was sidelined for asking too many peaky questions. The pastor continued to insist he was not Calvinist, but he continued to quote Calvinists. I don’t think he was trying to sneak in Calvinism. Rather, I believe he was naively getting help with his sermons, which included all those quotes. There were quite a few in the congregation who came from Calvinist churches, so there was plenty of momentum in the Calvinist direction. On the bright side, we were able to leave without getting excommunicated.