Progress

 Texas and I have been spending our weekends working on the basement stairs/kitchen reconfiguration.  Texas took out a good 16" of the kitchen wall this last weekend. 

 16" inches didn't seem like much, but everything feels a lot more open now. 

 Only problem is,  he disconnected the light switch to the kitchen and hasn't put it back in.  It's been a week.  My kitchen is dark.  Fortunately Texas has been too busy with work to fix it, so I cook in the dark and thank God for work.

Dear Texas, thank you for all your hard work.