by CJ | Dec 17, 2017 | Journal
A half foot of snow on the ground and more sifting down…and we’re missing ingredients. Well, she rules the kitchen during Christmas baking, but I *could* go after the needful stuff, and I rather enjoy winter driving (a novelty where I grew up)…so off...
by CJ | Dec 15, 2017 | Journal
We need to put the roof vent in on Monday. They’re forecasting 40 degrees right now. Our weather is nothing if not indecisive. We made a brief foray to Costco, and decided to come on home—it was very slippery, and there were the usual crazy drivers who...
by CJ | Dec 10, 2017 | Journal
We wait for the cabinet tops. We are also going to shed some things—going to sell off the Lenox princesses, all but one, and sell off the Russian fairy tale plates, we think. We’ll sell them at Ebay prices, so if perchance any of you are longing for a...
by CJ | Dec 8, 2017 | Journal
And most everything is in except the microwave installation and the vent work. It’s looking great. Lowes is going to fix everything that’s wrong without charging us anything extra, even taking back the largest cabinet (with no drawers) and giving us one...
by CJ | Nov 30, 2017 | Journal
Today we do battle with the sink base, and will be without water in the house until we get it right. If we don’t get it right, we and the cats will be spending the night in a hotel….but we think it should be just an hour’s work to get us the...
by CJ | Nov 29, 2017 | Journal
And we thought we’d start with the waste-disposal cabinet (hides the trash)—which turns out, to our surprise, to have a motor. You knee the thing and it powers open. We’re on the phone with the company trying to figure are the slats on the bottom of...
by CJ | Nov 28, 2017 | Journal
They are in town. They will be delivered between 10 and 2 tomorrow. Kudos to Lowe’s, who has chased this matter for 3 weeks now, starting with the company’s squishy ship date, to the fact they were on the road, to the non-fact they were maybe in Spokane,...
by CJ | Nov 27, 2017 | Journal
I’m sure the freight company is backlogged with holiday messes, but we stand a chance of getting cabinets maybe tomorrow.
by CJ | Nov 21, 2017 | Journal
It is raining cats, dogs, and frogs at this point. It is a day overdue for a scheduling phone call. We are being inundated by calls from the countertop people, but the cabinets, which have to be installed first, are not here yet. Thursday is Thanksgiving. Friday it...
by CJ | Nov 19, 2017 | Journal
Leaves are still green on the quince, but the wisteria has given up. Meanwhile Jane is still laboring over almost-the-last job we do, until we re-stock/shelve the kitchen. Scott is working for our friends Tim and Cheryl tomorrow, but hopefully (we thought we would...
by CJ | Nov 15, 2017 | Journal
The cabinets are not where the store thought they would be. They are still on a truck headed west. They are anticipated to be here Friday, but will not reach our place until Monday or Tuesday next. There is plus and minus to this: the plus is Jane can finish the...
by CJ | Nov 13, 2017 | Journal
Fingers crossed. I so hope they’re what we want.
