Big, Burly Men

...are currently tearing up my kitchen. Today my new counters arrive. Woo hoo! Our has has beautiful real pine cabinets, so divorcing them from the 30-year-old Formica counters was just not an option. Enter Kornerstone Tops, who will transform worn-out white to sexy black granite by lunchtime!!

This is pretty cool, actually. The guys came out a few weeks ago to measure and make a template of the counters. They used a butane glue gun. That was weird. Today, all my new counter pieces are clipped to a slab of plywood out in their truck. Some power sanding, some fabulous adhesive and hide-the-seam grout, and I'll have black granite counters.

Things you find out while big, burly men tear up your kitchen:

• The wallboard behind the backsplash looks *really* scary, especially behind the sink.
• There was enough dog hair under my stove to make a whole new dog. A small one.
• The sides of my stove were positively grody. I had to get out the degreaser right. then.
  
• I also found 37 cents,
• three marbles,
• a pork chop bone,
  
• and one of the huge ball bearings that came with the Geo-Mags.
  

Guess I oughta haul the stove out and clean under there more often, huh? Who cares. I'll feel like a domestic goddess. At least until I have to install the tile for the new backsplash.