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Just one more picture of the end cap. Last night we painted the living room and the color looks good but it needs a second coat. Today the lighting stuff gets installed.

Yesterday they installed most of the counter tops. It’s Caesarstone Oyester, 3cm thick. They have to put in the other end cap/vertical counter and cut holes for the faucet today. Also some pictures of the bathroom wall tile grouted. I think it looks really good and everything is starting to look like what it’s supposed […]

The plasterers were supposed to come yesterday to build out the wall/column in the kitchen that had the wrong measurement in the plans. They didn’t come. So they were supposed to come at 8AM today to fix it before the counter installers come at 9AM because it’s supposed to be done before the counters. They […]

Looks like the last paitning adventure killed the power roller. Well, I think I can bring it back if I take it apart and clean it, but I needed to do a second coat ont he living room ceiling and I can’t give my dad back a broken power roller so I got a new […]

I replaced the angle-stops, but then I turned the water back on the hot water valve was still leaking slightly. So I turned off the water again and tightened it another turn and now it’s fine. Buying one of each size it might be worked so now I have to return the others to OSH, […]

The bathroom tile is now done and next up is the grout. On Tuesday we get the counter tops installed in the kitchen. This weekend plasterers come to finish the wall in the laundry room, the patch in the tv room, the wall in the office. Most importantly, they are going to complete the wall […]

Last Friday the floor guy, John Crow of Crow’s Quality Flooring, came and installed the kitchen floor. It’s wide and long oak plank running perpendicular to the short narrow oak elsewhere in the house. Its up flush against the shorts so no cap is needed for the transition. The flooring is going to sit there […]

Pauly Shore is Dead is like watching someone’s therapy during a major transition. It also manages to be fairly funny at the same time. It’s good enough that I’ve watched all the DVD extras, but part of that might just be fascination at the whole project. If you watch this, be sure to check ou […]

We happened across another DVD sale at the local video store and picked up 15 movies for $4 each. First up is Club Dread. It’s a slasher flick parody without going overboard on jokes. That’s good in that you aren’t overwhelmed in wackiness, but bad in that it makes it just entertaining enough to not […]

We got the new GE front loaders delivered on Tuesday of last week but they couldn’t complete the installation of th dryer because we had the wrong size connection at 3/8″. According to the install manual it needed a 1/2″ connection. I saw that I couldn’t just remove the valve because there wasn’t enough clearance […]