It was Warm Yesterday

Prior to the storm that started last night, the air was actually warm in the valley. I noted this as the warehouseman at Sears came out to gather from my car the range hood I had errantly ordered.

He gathered his heavy coat to get it out of my car. I told him he might be surpriaed to see that the weather was pretty warm. When he got outside he said that he thought that the temperatures were warmer outside than in the warehouse.

I ordered a 36 inch hood for a 30 inch space. The sears clerk said that I could get a replacement on the 9th.. no credit my account. It was beauty. I drove over to Lowe's and picked their top on the line Allure 2 off the shelf and saved $300. I had spent it earlier when I bought the top of the line insinerator for 288. It was not included in the bid. The dishwasher an e dishwasher along the lines of the e windows arrived. It is stainless steel with the controls on the top of the draws. The refrig arrived too. Its a dozy.. as Cammie would say.. in a good way. It has a pur water filter built into it with ice and side by side. It has the the racks I like in the freezer and the refidgerator. Its stainless too, Energy Star compliant.. pretty cool.

We also have a new microwave/ convection on the counter oven. We thought that Sue could get to it easier if it were on the counter instead of on the wall.

The only thing missing is the stove. It is a Maytag stove and is on its way by truck from the mid west (I hope). Its supposed to be here on the 9th. It features a small pizza like oven under the countertop. Then a big convection oven under that. Everything is gas.

The kitchen counters are all in. the tile looks great. The same is true with the laundry tile on its top. The sinks are in and hold water. Louie the working was grumbling about how hard it was to get the spring loaded connectors to hold the sinks in place. He did and they are great. They are neptune stainless sinks the best quality.

Louie said that on one of their previous jobs the owner had bought the sinks before they came. They were too thin. Every time they ran their garbage disposal the plumbing shook and made loud noises. He was glad to see that I had a decent sink going in with a 7 year garbage disposal.

Yesterday I also helped the contractor but the master bed back in place. We had to find the pieces of it from all over the house. Sue wanted it lowered so we found that the bed had tiny pedestals on the base of each post. We unscrewed those. We also had to lower the supports that are under the king bed to the floor. These had to be cut down with a sawsall. I am hoping that they will be just the right size.

They are all pushing to get it done for the final inspection. The main thing the inspector is going to do is check to see if the plugs are all working. He is going to check to see that the fire alarms are all coordinated.

Its looking pretty exciting.

Lindsay, Sean and Heather are scheduled to come help this weekend. I am not sure that they will be able to with the storm.

Hope you can stay warm and safe out of the weather today.

Love Pat