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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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