January 26, 2026
The floor, and by default, the kitchen, renovation started today. We had a dishwasher leak around the time David was diagnosed. He pulled out the dishwasher and found the leak and we stopped using it. His plan was to tear out the floor himself and fix the section that had become damaged under the tile. It was a bigger job than he could take on after learning he had cancer and started treatment and things were just left until I no longer had a choice. Just another example of life getting in our way. I have spent the last few weeks packing up my kitchen and cursing why I have so many things living rent free in the cabinets never seeing the light of day. I am vowing to get rid of as much as I can during this process and moving forward. Some things just go in a box for future me to assess and see how I am feeling about them. Some things can be donated immediately. Some things will need to go back in the kitchen when this hell of a renovation is over. Because the floor in this old house went under the cabinets and because cabinets were nailed into the house back in the 60s, the cabinets have to be torn out and replaced with new ones. I also will need new counters tops, cook top, oven and flooring so those are all decisions I have been trying to make or at least avoid making as long as I can. I think I mentioned before how bad I am at making decisions. I have always been a pro/com list maker and apparently now I am a newly incarnated procrastinator. I was out early pet sitting this morning and when I returned, the cabinets were gone and the floor was already on its way to being demoed. It will be a long few weeks for me, SL and the cats with this being our only way of entering the back of the house except through the windows like cat burglars.