Get another can of salmon paint from Benjamin Moore, a can of Vintage Apricot from Ace, get mouse eliminator for the garage (they’re back!) and food for stirfry, plus pick up the T-molding for the thresholds from United Flooring.
I head for the grocery, and am greeted by a dark store—and people with flashlights. Power is out. Apparently somebody hit a power pole, bad news for them and everybody in blocks and blocks. All the freezer and cold counters are wrapped in plastic, they’re STILL out of the bacon I want, and the vegetables are in an area remote from windows, where flashlights are the rule. Just as I finish veggie shopping, we get lights back, and I get bean sprouts, which have been drawn back for protection in the cold -locker.
On to Ace—and they’ve suffered the same, ditto flashlights—though four blocks on. Then I try to get to Benjamin Moore store, and Cyber Sally informs me there are two in British Columbia. Hello? I happen to know there is one somewhere south of me, about 10 blocks. So a phone call to Jane (I knew this would be a day, so I actually charged my cell phone) turned up the addy, and I got that. Then on to the flooring people, where we do have one of the orders, but the other will arrive in the afternoon.
Back home, we are getting wired—the ceiling, that is. I have been coughing for weeks because of the dust from mudding, but I think we are approaching the end of that. Then there is the issue of my lost glasses, which are being replaced, but I don’t have them yet, so work is a little difficult.
We can begin to see light at the end of the kitchen…but the cabinets will be the last thing to arrive. Life is a lot easier now that we have water in the kitchen, however, and I can cook.
Oh dear… From one little comment you made, it sounds as if your glasses went AWOL again.
I don’t envy you your remodeling misadventures… But I do envy your actually doing the remodeling! We are still awaiting word from our contractor, whose father died maybe two months+ ago now and several weeks ago said he would be getting back into his daily swing of work (we are his next project) in a week or so. Not going to pressure him, but I do want to see the bathroom repaired and remodeled soon!
(We contacted him on it coming on three years ago: he’s really good but really in demand… And won’t start a new project until he is fully finished with an old.)
I’m glad you got your sink operational again, but when did this transpire? Last I heard, you were eating off of paper plates and doing washing up in the bathroom (let alone the Sisterhood of the Travelling Stove). I would have thought cabinets necessary for sink, unless you had a standalone of some type.
How do Los Gatos regard the kitchen remodel? I am putting off new flooring until our elderly and quite curmudgeonly cats go to the Great Cattery in the Sky. I don’t think they would like having everything shuffled about and torn up.
The glasses have been gone for a week, and I am suffering mild headaches with the old ones, but continuing to try to write.
New ones are on order.
The old sink has been put back into service, as our carpenter nailed together a frame on which it (and the old bit of countertop laminate) can sit and be connected to the plumbing. I also have the accompanying dishwasher, and the range has been stable in position for at least a week, so we are making progress. The water comes in as a trickle because our old faucet is a mess, but at least it comes in.
I thought you had a couple live-in mouse eliminators….
Speaking of flashlights, I wonder if part of the paint match problem might be inconsistent lighting. Stores often have terrible lighting, distorting colors; and weather could change the lighting in your kitchen day to day. Using a consistent phone- or flashlight at home and in the store might help.
Some of these trackers seem small enough to work with glasses, at least on a chain. OTOH, maybe the chain alone would solve the problem more cheaply. The trackers run around $25/item.
http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/7-gadgets-to-keep-track-of-the-things-that-matter-most-to-you-1239064
Alas, our mouse-eliminators are forbidden the garage, where the problem is, because there are too many chemicals they could get into. And we don’t want to let them in for an expedition because any urban mice could already have been poisoned by a neighbor—we sadly have to eliminate the problem, though the mice are cute little things. We just can’t allow them to tear up things, and the aroma of mouse-ness is just pretty awful. The year they did get in, they destroyed a mattress in storage and did a lot of other damage.
The paint mis-mix was unmistakably pink—or in the Southwest, as they say, truly ‘paaank’. We’re replacing it with a very nice peach color, which is sort of apricot, but not as yellow as apricot. It is going with the adobe-clay color very well,being generally the same tone, but lighter.
And just got word our new faucet has been shipped.
Walt stole a march on me. I was going to suggest getting a glasses locator such as this one http://findmybit.com/. Seems cheap at the price if it kept you from having to shell out the big bucks glass cost these days.
Glad you can see the light at the end of the tunnel — at least I hope you can see it well enough to determine it’s not another train!