<!--quoteo(post=288423:date=May 20 2008, 06&#58;48 PM:name=DebbieandJerry)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DebbieandJerry &#064; May 20 2008, 06&#58;48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=288423">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->As for games and imagination, we are the lucky ones.  Think about it, we drank from the hose and never got sick.  We rode in the back of a pick-up truck.  We rode our bicycles without helmets - busy streets and/or sidewalks.  We shared our drinks, snacks, food, whatever AND we never washed our hands before or after eating or playing.  Hey, we even spoke to strangers <br />and didn&#39;t have to lock our houses up - ever.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />P. S. To replying to the above post again:  I just got back from taking the girls to school and I locked the front door, totally forgot about leaving the French Doors open in my bedroom&#33;&#33;&#33; Guess what, the family jewels are still here&#33;&#33;&#33; <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <br /><br />Good morning everybody,  Now to the remodel..<br /><br /> Well as usual the kitchen is a long story....<br /><br />it all started when we built the house, I never liked the kitchen.  It is  blocked off from the L.R. it is not open to the L.R.   (I thought I wanted it that way, I was wrong) Hubby always said he would remodel, take the wall out, build an island to separate the kitchen from the L.R.and make it so it  a bar/ breakfast serving area thingie also, redo the mud-room, maybe even move the back door, new floor etc...etc...<br /><br />Well when we went on our cruise one of the they things Jerry did to secure the house was to turn the water off to the ice maker, when we get back, ice maker no longer makes ice&#33;&#33;  It was going to cost over &#036;100 just for the part to fix the #*@X  thing, so since Jan. I&#39;ve been without a ice maker<br /><br />OK, now to the rest of the story,  Hubby says he is just going to buy a new refrig. He is tried of buying bags of ice and making ice.  I tell him we can buy a lot of ice for the price of a new refrig. but what do I know??    So 1 day a couple of weeks ago he pulls up in the yard  with this HUGE side-by-side refrig.<br />and I mean huge...<br /><br />Wanna guess how big???   Too big to go into the hole the old refrig is in, to big to even get into  the kitchen without tearing out our BUILT-IN breakfast booth, you get the picture.  Well he says he figured that would be the case but it was a good buy and get this, &quot;I am tired of buying ice&#33;&quot;   <br /><br />So like every good Arkie for the last couple of weeks I have had a refrig plugged up and going on my FRONT PORCH&#33;  But on the bright side, I have been able to stock up on some bargains at the store  with all the extra space.   <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":smile:" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> <br /><br />OK, Getting him motivated part was this,  I tell him if you are going to have to do something just to get it into the house lets just finally remodel some,  and with the long weekend coming up this would be the perfect opportunity - if you took Friday off too.  So that&#39;s the plan.   <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes2:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />he is going to take some space out of the laundry/mud room to put the refrig adding that space to the kitchen, tear out the dividing wall, build the island/bar/breakfast thingie to replace the breakfast booth that has to go.  New floor and it time permits sand down and repaint the cabinet doors (I never like them either  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":laugh:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> )   He told me if I wanted to cabinet doors redone I was on my own&#33;  <br /><br />I might have missed some things - this is going on a bit...  with Jerry no project actually has a starting and stopping place.  Just like our house. There is other things he wants to change and he will eventually change them.  <br /><br />Andrea   <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cool2:" border="0" alt="cool.gif" />