Battle Troll Tiling




Reno Ridiculouso: Tiling Battle Troll Style

Food Mood; Chili, cause that’s the troll’s favourite food

It’s March Break and the Battle Troll (name for my brother in law, see last post) arrives to lay our tile.  Everything is set.  The Hubby has worked his butt off to make sure that we have everything needed and are ready to go.  The Troll will be with us for two days to lay all the dining room, back entry and bathroom tile.  Oh, and my sister comes too.  But mostly she and I and the Kiddo get out of the way while the boys go to town on tile.

They come and we order in food and have a great night of drinking and playing card games and generally just enjoying being together.  The next day The Sister (otherwise known as Sissy) and I and the Kiddo head out to the ROM while the boys start.

We’re enjoying the ROM when about two hours in I get a call from the Hubby. I’m expecting to hear how much he loves working with the Battle Troll and how awesome the room looks and how thrilled he is.  But, I forgot that this is the Reno Wreck and the gods of renovations do not like us.  Nope.
He’s calling to say that the Battle Troll lifted one of our massive dining room tiles and put his back out. In fact, even worse, The BT leaned forward, lifted the tile off a pile, put his back out and fell forward, trapping his own arms under the stack of tiles with the weight of his body.  It’s taken them ten minutes to figure out how to get BT out of this situation, and he’s now resting and instructing the Hubby from afar.  

BY ALL THAT IS HOLY, WHY ARE WE SO CURSED?   The BT is fine in the end, but can’t tile anymore, so for the next two days he mostly instructs, and they pull off the dining room in two days.  The other rooms will have to wait as that’s all the poor Battle Troll can take.

Bye Bye Battle Troll.  Sorry that our curse extended to you.
Sigh.

Apology Chili
1 pound ground beef
can of kidney beans
finely diced sweet potato
can of tomatoes
cut up spanish onion
1 tbsp chili powder
1/3 cup heinz chili sauce
1 tsp paprika

Cook, like a lot, like eight hours in the crockpot.  Serve with tortilla chips, guacamole, sour cream, chopped green onions and apologies.
Hello! Thanks for stopping by to check out my recipes and commiserate with my (our) misery. Misery loves company! I live in Toronto with my husband and little girl. We have spent a year (yep, that's right, renovating our home) About seven months into this crazy renovation I thought to myself, this has got to be funny or it will be pathetic! And so, I have chosen for funny! This is my collection of mostly crockpot (although sometimes not) recipes paired with the days (weeks, months) that inspired them. Please share your best reno stories and crockpot recipes too.

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