Not a completely wasted weekend…

After the kid’s swimming lessons on Saturday (in which Maria and I have to get in the water) we loaded everyone into the car and headed up to Sacramento for my brother in law’s birthday.  As it is with every trip to Sacramento to see Rudy & Sharon, I feel like it’s great fun for everyone who visits, but more work for poor Sharon and Rudy.  As usual the food was great and we all really enjoyed seeing them, but it was a bit of a haul to get up there and back in one day.  The other good thing about this outing is that we got to visit my buddy Phil before heading home.  Now we love seeing Phil, Jean and the family, and we try to get together with them whenever we can (which has not been very often unfortunately), but Phil has something that no one else does -a drum sander!  Fifteen minutes at the drum sander and a bottle of nice beer later -the drawer fronts are done.  There is now nothing stopping me from spraying the cabinets (just gotta get the laquer).  It went from a complete loss of a work day to a very productive one.  Thanks Phil!

Sunday was spent drilling holes, pulling wire, and rigging up a few boxes.  It all went pretty smoothly.  Everything is a new circuit, so there’s not much messing around.  Just pull the wire and go.  Now, next comes the lights, and I know it’s a mess up in the attic.  So much so that though I’m pulling a new circuit for the lights, I can’t just ignore the rats nest of wires up there.  Hopefully the temperature drops 10 degrees or so in the next couple days, because I’ll be spending some time in the attic pretty soon.

Posting a couple pictures of the wiring.  Quite a bit of stuff for a teeny tiny kitchen!

Got a couple hookups to do for all the new circuits...

Lots of wires in that wall -hope the inspector likes it!

Tags: DIY, Kitchen remodel