Worker Mayhem and my Birthday.

Today the Kitchen builders are finally here to build our long missed kitchen. No more hot plate and boxes! We will have a proper nice kitchen with all appliances and for the first time in my life, a dish washer. I actually did not really want one, but Claudia insisted. No worries, she just has to operate it. Like all German appliances, it looks to have many more controls and settings than needed.

About ten minutes after the kitchen guys started, the scaffolding guys arrived to put up the scaffolding around the house so they can do the outside plaster and painting. So there has been much hub bub here the past few hours.
On another note, today is my 34th birthday. It is nice to celebrate with some tradesman as they finish these house jobs. Claudia gave me a nice shirt, but I have no photo of that yet. My big gift this year is one that all the family chipped in on. They got me a BBQ. The Weber One-Touch Gold.
Mike and Cherie also surprised me with some DVDs. I had put them on my Amazon wish list quite a long time ago and forgotten about them. It was pretty cool to get them in the mail yesterday.

My birthday dinner will be whatever we can order in, and I think my other big birthday wish will be to watch this film tonight. By all accounts it is a good one: