Kitchen Remodel Day 8 (Elapsed Day 14)

Today I took advantage of Jo's planned "garden day" to go to the nursery with her to get some new kale plants, and some others I couldn't pass up.

Much more fun than waiting for Saul.

But he did show up about 2, and got this side of the kitchen dry walled.

Notice how all the electrical boxes line up!  Way to go, Saul!

I must be misunderstanding something, because I thought the base cabinets needed to be installed before the granite could be measured, but I must be mistaken.

According to my calculations two walls need a second coat of mud, the plumbing needs to be fixed and at least the under sink electrical needs to be finished before the cabinets go in.

Saul says he'll be here tomorrow afternoon, when the granite guys come.  It may be a very interesting day!

Today I got to figure out how to cook without a sink.  I used a recipe I learned at Healthy Taste of LA on Sunday.  You just throw everything in the slow cooker.  I mean everything.  Well, you do take the skin off the onion first, but it goes in whole, the carrots go in whole, the celery goes in whole.  I peeled the sweet potato before it went in whole.  I added some black eyed peas and some water and a can of tomatoes and set it to cook.

Jerry rigged up the big water cooler on the little table by the front door.

After the soup cooks, you take the immersion blender and moosh it all up!  And then I threw in some brown rice for good measure.  Sure smells good!