Jay arrived with a helper to begin carpeting the stairs and
upper landing. He has also measured the
bedrooms so we can finish off the remodel later in the fall. Our carpet choice made a change in how the
carpet is laid so we are short three steps of carpet and will be a day or so
behind until more carpet arrives. Jay
can do part of the transition trim between rooms but we need one more small
piece of laminate installed between the studio and the downstairs guest bathroom.
Michael dropped by for a few minutes on his way from a
business call to his office. He laughed
that we are still making coffee in the studio but liked that the kitchen is
almost finished and we actually have stuff in the cabinets.
Bill arrived to remove a shelf high up in one of the
cabinets so I can store items that we only use once or twice a year (or maybe
never in our fourteen years of marriage) and they are too tall to fit anywhere
else.
I used up the remaining large size shelf liner so I need a
trip to Wal-Mart or Lowe’s to buy more-- lots more.
The under counter lights have finally shipped and are due to
be delivered on Monday 5-7-12. Home
Depot is sending us a gift card because of the unusual delay in shipment.
The instructions Monday were that if workers were coming
they needed to call the night before so we know if we can take a vacation day and
sleep in late or wake up early and be ready for organized chaos.
No call Monday night so we slept in sort of. Larry had a lunch meeting with Kiwanis and
when he returned home we headed to Canada to IKEA. Larry hates to shop, hates to shop at IKEA,
but the cart was full when we checked out and most of it was impulse, “I need
that,” buys that Larry picked out. How
funny. My must-have was fifty-nine cent
tea towels for the kitchen and we did find our cabinet door pulls. Success!
We stopped at Bobs Burger and Brew at the outlet mall in Custer for
dinner on our way home.
Bob arrived Wednesday to paint the shuttered closet doors in
the downstairs closet because we had one of those rare sunny days (almost, it
did sprinkle for a few minutes) and will return Thursday to install the
doors. Bill stopped by to give us an
update on the cabinet piece we are waiting on.
Next week Bill will install the cabinet hardware and go through our list
of little things to be finished. We are
getting close.
Wal-Mart and Lowes are both sold out of the shelf paper and
the felt pads that go on the bottom of the furniture legs to help protect the
floors. There must be a lot of spring
cleaning, home remodels, spruce up the old homestead type of projects going on
right now.
Thursday morning I was up early to get to Lowes so I could
purchase one of eighteen shop lights that was due to be delivered Wednesday
night. They have been out of the four
foot length with the new smaller more efficient bulbs for weeks. Since they will be making the older bulbs
obsolete in the near future there is no point buying the cheaper version which
is in stock. Because only black fixtures
arrived on the truck that is what I bought and there were only eighteen on the
floor.
I arrived back to find Bob finishing up the painting but
unable to mount the closet doors because the previous owner installed the
hardware too low and with the new
laminate floors, the doors will need to be cut down a half inch in order to
fit. One more item for Bill to fix when
we start on that bucket list of little details.
Dinner out with friends really takes your mind off being so
close to being finished, but just not quite.
We laughed and joked, and enjoyed a great Mexican dinner at Chihuahuas
in Ferndale. These aren’t just friends
we ride with, these are the friends who are there for you, you don’t have to
watch what you say or watch your back, and they laugh with you not at you. We are blessed.
Bill arrived Friday afternoon from working on neighbor
George’s rental home which had some serious water and dry rot problems. He was at a standstill on that job so he
switched back to ours to do some of the little items. I had a few new shelves cut and installed but
Bob was not able to be on site so the closet doors are still waiting for a fix.
We waited until we thought Costco would be a little less
crowded and went on our first shopping trip in months. Not a cart full, but the essentials. Parking wasn’t great and if we had waited
maybe another thirty minutes most of the Canadian shoppers would have been
gone.
We made a quick stop at Wal-Mart for more shelf paper and
the store was full of pallets with merchandise that had just arrived but not
been unpacked yet. So we still need
thirteen more rolls of shelf liner and maybe tomorrow it will be on the
shelves.
The forecast was for clouds and rain so no riding
today. I checked online for the shelf
paper and they are already sold out except for one roll and the nearest store
is Wenatchee that has it in stock, so it looks like it will be another week of
waiting. Really I am not obsessive
compulsive…I have said this before but I started with a new kitchen and rather
than have it look like a patchwork quilt inside the cabinets with different
color shelf liners or patterns, I will wait. Larry said to just order it
on-line even though it would cost a bit more…I will wait.
Sunday was a wonderful, relaxing day spent riding the back
roads of Whatcom and Skagit counties with friends and stopping in Conway for
lunch where we sat outside in the sunshine. Great friends and great
memories.
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