"When it rains, it pours!"

My poor Kevin! He has worked in the kitchen every day, morning til night, since last Saturday. It has been one thing after another coming up and disrupting him. I wrote about the walls and how he removed them and the electrical because of the crappy job that was done in the first place. Well since then, he hasn't been able to install the recessed cans because we are still waiting for them in the mail. The wires are run and ready so all that is left is to actually install the cans and fixtures. We ordered them on the 3rd and they are coming on Monday the 17th. Not too big of a deal because Kevin can get those in quickly at night after work. We thought they would be here sometime this past week but the company we ordered from uses something slower than "snail mail" (if you can believe that).
Then, Kevin decided to removed the two layers of crappy vinyl stick on tiles because if he tiled over them, there would be a slope in the floor. As he was doing this, he got to the area by the sliding door and found the floor rotted through. Luckily, he got a hold of Pat and they are fixing it today. However, he can't tile until the floor is fixed. To fix the floor, they had to remove the sliding glass door and rip down the deck. Both projects we were going to do, but not until after we finished the kitchen. So on Friday Kevin ripped down the deck. It was a good thing he did because he found that the previous owners never cemented the posts to the deck. They were just stuck in the ground and not even far enough to be a good support. We were very lucky that the deck was never used by more than 1 or 2 people at a time or it could have collapsed.
So the deck is gone and Kevin goes to buy a new door. We decided on beautiful french doors. Well, once again, issues. Our door is 5 feet by 8 feet. Kevin went to 4 places, and they only stock doors in the size 6 feet by 8 feet. We have to special order a door and wait for it to come in. So today, they are fixing the floor, taking down the door, and then they have to reinstall the old door until the new one comes in.
Pat is going to build us a new deck in the spring. I would love to have a "Florida room" like Aunt Leanne and Richard put on their house, but I think to ask for it now might push Kevin over the edge. After he discovered the rotted floor that had vinyl tile stuck on it to conceal it, I had to go buy him a 12 pack of Coors. After 4 or 5 beers, he was relaxed enough to go to bed.
In between the floor issues, Kevin redid the heating system for the kitchen. He pulled out the baseboard heating and is going to install heaters under the cabinets, where they won't be seen. To do this, he had to reroute the heating system in the basement. While doing this, he discovered that the circulator was bad on the system, which is why our home always seems to be cold. So he redid that too. Basically, we now have a new heating system, new floor, new walls, and a new ceiling. Kevin's favorite show is "Holmes on Holmes" and Mike Holmes motto is fix it once, fix it right. I only wish that the previous home owners had watched the show instead of doing their ghetto fixes.
By the time this project is done, I will show Kevin this blog and we will chuckle about all the things that "popped" up while in the process.
So...
To my Kevin- "when it rains...it pours, but after the rain is when the rainbow appears, and you can always hear the birds singing"

Here is to rainbows and birds ...