The scratches the floors endured plus the prolonged schedule led our contractor to repair the floors by having them sanded down and refinished for the living room. Along with that we went ahead and had three spots replaced which had
1. a poor patch and broken boards
2. a water stain from a plant or something - ziggy was exonerated. I thought it had been an overlooked pee stain left in her 'executive pisser' but the floor guy said he would have smelled it when they sanded it down.
3. some other spot
You'll also noticed that the pool table is gone. We donated it to a VFW post in south Austin, or possibly to some scam artists, depending on whether or not I receive that donation receipt. I think they're legit, and will get good use out of the table. It was funny when I heard the old vets and crew arrive. Some crunching and grinding, along with someone gunning the gas, led me to look outside where I watched an old guy try to back up the driveway. The only problem was he was about 5' off to the right and trying to go through my 65 gallon recycling bin and over my corner flower patch. A good divot was dug in the yard, and the once rectangular bin was now squished. I tried to tell him to make a big loop around the block, but he misunderstood and made a 5 point turn in the busy intersection by the house. Nothing terrible though, and luckily the recycling truck's robotic grabber arm scrunched the can back into shape.
So the floors look great, I painted the trim, but will touch up some more. The GC installed the cabinet knobs and pulls, and installed the microwave, stove and fridge. We've been eating like college days, MV food galore. And notice the Christmas tree that we cut down at the farm*.
Just a few things left, with hopes of a finished kitchen by next Friday! The main things being the granite, dishwasher and backsplash.
*this blog is somewhat boring due to lack of pictures. We'll need to address our maxed out storage space with google and load the pics of the floor, and of the tree.
