Kitchen Remodel --... in plainolebob's Blog
Posted on Sep 8, 2009 9:48 AMBess was gone visitin her sister, Cora Lees'. Now ain't nuthin unusual
here,
cause she goes to visit a lot and all. Durin the spring and the fall, we
have to put out poison for them field mice, and such. When it rains
hard, we have to do the same thing, for the dang ole, big brown yard
roachs, whut come inside the house. You know them big ugly ones.
We were goin thru one these spells, when I decide to put out them
little bags of mice poison, and them fumigatin bomb things out, to get
rid of them, and them other pesky house pets. This is why Bess,
always
leaves to visit Cora Lee.
So, I, put them things ever where, under the cabinets, in the attic
, under the house, spray that Demon bug killer all round the house,
and go back to set off all the bombs. Now I use a lot of them bomb
things, cause I wanna git rid of ever thin.
In the mean time, I go fishin down to Roll Gully, where my favoright
fishin hole is. Always catch a mess of fish there, besides can't do
nuthin
round that house, with them bombs goin off and such.
I catch a mess of fish, more than a three tweleve pack fishin trip ought
to allow, you betcha. I figger, that house bomb stuff, ought to done it's
thing by now, sos I head home, clean them fish, put em in the freezer,
I got
one them big deep freezers, you know, one them Kenmore type, whut
holds
a lot.
I sweep up all them dead bugs, whut had died, didn't want Bess gittin
upset for this mess.
I go out side, in the back and fire up the BBQ pit and cooks me some
pork
chops and stuff on the grill, drank some beer, and made me some chops to
eat, there were a few left over, took em inside for later.
Next mornin, I'm sittin on the front porch, drinkin my coffee readin the
paper,wavin at the people on their way to werk, waitin on Clem to bring
the mail, and visit a spell.
Directly, Clem, shows up with the mail. He stops, says howdy , goes inside to
git him a cup a coffee. Thats what we been doin for years. Any ways, he
comes back outta the house, with this god awful look on his face, and says,
Mr. Bob, what the hey is that awfullest smell comin outta yore kitchen. I
thought for a minnit, and said Clem ain't nothin, I put out them bombs,
to kill them unwanted house pets, othern that I don't know whut it might be.
So,Clem left to finish his mail rounds and such.
When I went back inside, after finishin the paper, I could smell
somethin that just weren't right, figgered it would go away.
Next mornin, this smell had grown so strong, I just knowed a mouse
had died some wheres. I started huntin, lookin ever where, finally decided
it must be in one the walls. Now I figger, this gonna be a chore, findin out
which one these walls is holdin that dead mouse. It was.
I start tearin out cabinets, tearin up walls and such, makein a god awful
mess. Worst part is, Bess, is gonna be back in three days, an I got this
whole kitchen done tored up and didn't find no mouse any wheres, man
I gotta fix this kitchen back up, and pronto.
I, go to Lowes, and pick out all these cabinet to replace, cause I done
tored up all the ones whut was there. They got these real good ones, whut
are easy to put in and such, buy em, load em up, take em home and git started.
Day fore Bess gits home, and all them nice new cabinets is put in, lookin
good too, onlyest thing is, you can still smell thet god awful smell. Sos I figger,
best way to git rid of thet there smell is to kill it. I git one them big bottles
of Clorox, and wash ever thin down. Man, I sill smell that stuff, sos I git
me a gallon of amonia and wash thet over the Clorox. Now, I don't
know if eny of you, ever done thet afore or not, but man this stuff will
burn them little hairs off the inside your nose, like you wont't believe.
My eyes is watterin, my breathin ain't there, man I git out that house,
faster then a preacher goin after fried chicken.
If thet there don't kill thet smell ain't nuthin gonna werk.
I'm sittin on the front porch, readin the paper, drinkin my coffee, wavin
at people on their way to werk, when Bess drives up. Just now gettin
back from Cora Lees' house.
She is so happy to see me, gives me a big kiss and hug, when I tell
her she has new kitchen cabinets. Yep, went to Lowes and decided to
surpize ya. You betcha.
Bess, goes in the kitchen, to check out these here brand new cabinets
and such. Now I'm more nervous then a cow with a buck toothed calf,
when she says, oh Mr. Bob, these are beautiful, you finally got me these
cabinets that I have been dreamin bout. More kisses, more hugs, then that
dang smell, raises up like a smoke detekter goin off. Maaaaan, I do not
need that smell messin up all this sweetness, she smells it too.
I said, honey, must be a dead mouse somewheres here, I thought I smelt
it too. I did not mention, the earlier events, leading up to these brand
new cabinets, from Lowes, only that i would hunt down the place
where the smell might be commin from.
Bess, is hungry from her ride from Cora Lees', and ask me to turn on the
oven to make some bisquits. I turn on the oven, go get them bisquits
and start hearin this funny sound. It's commin from the oven, pop pop,
sizzle sizzle. smoke pourin out and all.
I turn thet oven off real quick like, open the oven door, you ain't gonna
believe this.
Remember them pork chops, I had left over, when I got back from
fishin, well here they were, filled with poppin bugs, cookin up like little
pop corns and the worst god awful smell you could ever imagine.
Those were the most expensive chops I ever cooked.
But, Bess, got her dream cabinets.
7 comments:
It's a good thing Bess got her cabinets or else you would have been in a whole heap of trouble with that smell. You are a good man Bob.You do such nice things for your honey.
thank goodness you're a good handyman.
..."but Bess got her dream cabinets." Nuff said.
Gr8 post. What a nice guy. You know you're making us look foolish, and putting a ton of pressure on us too.
miss rae--thank you i really love your site, and the always fresh new reading.
sarah--you are too kind, thank-you
coach dayne--lol not trying to make anyone lookfoolish, and if anyone can take pressure it is you. thamks
Isn't it a great thing when there is a sunny side to pork chops gone bad? This post made me laugh - it made me recall the horrible time we had when a squirrel got into a wall in our house - and my hubby used D-Con rat poison to get rid of it! Life is a comedy of errors - don't forget to laugh :)
I know that smell Bob! One of my kids left the freezer door open in the seller once several years ago. Nobody needed to go down there for quite some time. All kinds of meat, including a turkey.... God that smell.... The memories hurt.
Next time I have to remember not to read your posts whilst I'm eating lunch. :-)
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