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Remodel Shopping ugh

We've started the process of shopping for all of the things that go into a kitchen remodel. I'm shocked at how many decisions there are. Sinks, faucets, countertops, cabinet hardware and the list just goes on and on. Once you pick a style there are materials, edges and even more choices.

We've made some progress though. We selected a contractor, have made decisions about the cabinet layout and most likely a new front door. It seems like every time we make a decision there are more to make.

After a stretch of decisionless shopping a visit to Andy's for an Orange Freeze is comforting the big box headache.

Rain Rain Go Away

It's been an incredibly rainy day today. It wasn't raining when I first got up this morning, but started soon after. There have only been a couple of lulls, but the ground here certainly can't keep up. Lucy refused to leave the overhang of the door to go outside, but she'd been heading to the door for about 30 minutes, so I took her out with an umbrella. Right now I'm thankful for huge umbrellas and plastic birki shoes. I managed to stay fairly dry, can't say the same for Lucy. While I was up to my ankles in water I thought taking some pictures would be good. The street in front of our house is under a couple of inches of water, and the river that runs around the back of our house and down the side to the front is certainly contributing. 

You can't really see it in the first picture, but the second shows the lake by our upper patio nicely. There's also a great little waterfall pouring into the river that runs from the side of our house to the street. The standing water is about 4" deep much to the dog's dismay. 

 

Fridge In Place

We got our refrigerator moved into the house on Sunday afternoon only to discover that it didn't fit into the spot in the kitchen. We had measured this fridge and the one that was in the house before we bought it and we thought they were the same size. Apparently we didn't measure too well because our fridge was about 1/4" too tall. Luckily our friend Joe (who does millwork and cabinetry) came over Monday to look at the problem and then back last night to help fix it. We trimmed off about 1/2" of the trim on the cabinets above the fridge and then sanded it flat with a belt sander -- there shouldn't be any fridge worries from here on out. It's nice to have the fridge not in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Trailers Really Damage Trucks

So we borrowed Sarah's uncle's truck and trailer to move with last weekend. As you can probably guess from the title of this post we had a bit of a mishap. While backing the trailer into our driveway I hit the curb, jackknifed the trailer and put a nice dent/scratch all down the rear quarter panel of the truck. Funny thing is he loaned us the trailer so we wouldn't scratch up the bed with our stuff. I didn't think to take a picture of the truck, but Sarah thinks we should get the smashed panel as we're paying a good sum of money to replace it.

After the wreck we moved all of the furniture into the new house before the rain started on Saturday. Things are finally starting to settle into place -- the living room and our bedroom are put together.

The guest room painting looks great -- I'll post before/after pictures later. I decided that the room that is going to be my office really needs paint so we picked up a sage green paint for one wall and craft white for the rest of the room. We're going to paint one wall of the kitchen with the green as well.

Last night we moved the remainder of the kitchen items. Cooking in the new kitchen can't really start yet as we're still living out of a dorm fridge. Although we'll have our fridge on Sunday which is sooner than expected. It also means we'll be fully out of the old house this weekend. This weekend's goals are the painting, my office, and refrigerator -- things I can handle on my own while Sarah recovers from having her wisdom teeth removed on Friday.