Cable knit sweater...

It kinda started like that...You know, you see a thread loose on your sweater so you pull it and it starts to unravel...And you just keep pulling on it - somehow fascinated by the back and forth pattern of the undoing.

The paneling in the kitchen had started to pull away from the wall, see. Each time I walked by I'd kind of tug on it and think "hmmm...that would be so easy to just pull off of there. I wonder what it looks like under there?" For about a week I have been tugging at that corner...How hard would it be??

Today is Martin Luther King day. A day to remind us of his work toward liberating America from racial injustice. In remembrance, I deemed today as liberate my house day. I began with a Fly Lady Fling Boogie (say WHAT?). I Free cycled my old stereo and speakers and some junk from the bathroom pantry. Then I scrubbed the floor in the dining room with vinegar and water to get up the places where Bentley missed the papers or totally ignored them. Then I moved some of the furniture around and topped it off with a Murphy's Oil finish. Next I blocked off the dining room with Sketch's exerpen. Pupper dogs are no longer allowed to set foot in that room! I'm on the verge of putting Bentley and his unfixed/Lasix-taking self in doggie diapers! sheesh!

OK, so back to the kitchen. That paneling is just hanging there, ya know...It really would be easy to take it off. And then I could paint the wall. I could say I remodeled my kitchen! Inspired, I pull the microwave, portable dishwasher and table away from the wall and give an extra hard pull to that attitudinal paneling. Off it comes! HA! No problem! Only 3 sections to remove. I got tripped up with unscrewing an electrical outlet (only shocked myself once!) but other than that it was easy as pie...well, at least as easy as an upside down cake. Within 15 minutes I had no paneling left!
I also had the ugliest kitchen wall you ever did see!



Whoever put this stuff up, appears to have used tar to attach it. They put it on all willy nilly. Some of it even resembles...um...well....

Procreation swimmies.

Here is what the paneling looked like (this is a piece I have decided not to remove yet!)

Here is the rest of the kitchen wall:


Next steps:

1. Call my shrink to determine what the heck I was THINKING!

2. Figure out how to get rid of the swimmy glue and hope I still have that blue-green paint in the basement!

On the upside... I also liberated Bentley from the burden of his fur. It was getting so long and unkempt. So I looked up how to do a maltese "puppy" cut and went to work with my clippers...It doesn't look half bad!


He's so darn cute even if he does spend an hour outside and then come inside to pee.

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