I have been disappointed in the progress made at the lake the last few weeks, but there has been understandable reasons, our contractor has been on Jury duty for 7 or 8 days and that has greatly affected the progress. I am sure hoping he has my bedroom finished by the time my outage is over. Susan has taken a few more pictures this week and I am thinking next week I will have some new points of interest to show on the house. I know they hung some of the doors on Friday and that the new front door, washer and dryer and a cabinet that goes where the old washer and dryer are in the kitchen was delivered at quitting time, and that Pat is carrying the door knobs and some ceiling fans to them today. Can you believe we spent $1000.00 on door knobs, geeesh I was shocked at the cost.
The removed the windows and door from the dining/kitchen area and will be reconstructing this wall. From what I understand they have the 2x4's in place and the new door cut but no sheet rock yet. I would ask Pat to send me a few extra pictures but he has had such a rough day getting there that I will just have to wait. Possibly I can get pictures before I post this. The week has been pretty calm and uneventful until today.
They did get the ceramic floors sealed. Also we got the estimate on the carpet and think we will be ready for it in "2 weeks".... hmmm that is the contractors motto, so maybe I better not get too excited about that.
They also got the steps made on the patio, the pavilion and the front porch. However we still do not have any trusses up so I can see what the front porch/ entry is gonna look like.
The kids here are on FALL BREAK next week so Pat left early this morning taking Brooke to Anniston, Al to meet Holly and then he was gonna go on to the lakehouse for the week. I slept in until about 8 after seeing Pat and Brooke off, then off to Walmart for my weekly shopping. I was surprised to get a great parking spot and it the 1st Saturday in October. I went in to get a few things and had been researching LCD TV's all week because I think we need a bigger TV in our den to watch football on. As I was checking out the TV's I got a call from Pat and he was about 20 miles this side of Tuscaloosa and broke down... the old truck had quit. I had to leave walmart and get a plan to rescue him and Brooke. I stopped to fill my van 1st thing and was gonna call Randy my brother to see if he could help. I could not get him and geesh my phone was dead. I could not get the car charger to hook to my phone... man I was pissed.. so now I had to drive to the house to get Chris's cell phone or something before I could head to get Pat. Realize I have to be at work tomorrow morning at 7 and Chris has to be at work tonight at 6 so ummm I guess I was headed to Bama. He is actually about 80 miles from the lake, and I am thinking gosh I have a long day ahead of me. As I drove home I thought of a plan... maybe Chris's Dad could go get Brooke and meet Holly and then I could get someone else to get Pat and the truck. So I made a few calls, got Randy and he got a wrecker headed to get Pat and the truck and called Tiny and he headed to get Brooke. When I finally got Pat on the phone I guess he had panicked and had called the contractor, Larry to come get him and Brooke and had called Holly to meet them at the lake. HARD HEADED MAN HE IS!!!!... I had told him just wait let me see what I can do and I will call you back in a few... well anyway... we went with my plan and Holly did not have to drive that 2 hrs to the lake, she met Brooke at Tiny's. It was the busiest day of the year for traffic though with the Talladega 500 race going on and the Alabama game in Tuscaloosa. I think all got to their destination safely.
I went back to walmart to continue my shopping. I went back to the TV's and made my selection and bout some groceries and even got me and Chris a steak. When I got home Chris helped me hook up the TV and then he grabbed a nap so he could watch the Bama game. I have basically done laundry and watched TV the rest of the day other than cooking the steaks. I think Pat will enjoy the TV but I did not tell him about it, he was so stressed I figured it might be more than he could handle, lol. Dang I sent my camera with him and can't even take a picture of it.
