There's light at the end of the tunnel

It's Easter and we've got through two holidays with this project and you've traveled with us. It's almost time to say good bye to this project. All the appliances are in and are working (in fact today, Mark's making home made pasta for dinner, yum). The lights are all in, the flooring, everything. Oh, there's a few touch ups to be done, so paint that needs touch up, the grill for the vent, all little things that'll be done quickly.

Last week I had Sears come in and clean the carpeting in the dining room and family room. Both rooms took a beating in the remodeling, especially the dining room. Unfortunately, as we were reassembling the dining room we discovered the floor is now warped. Mark thinks the last cleaning was the last straw for the floor. All the years of cleaning the rugs has taken it's toll. We've sent a note off to John to see if we can add this to the project (you know the project, it's the one that I just said was almost done). I'm seriously beginning to think we may have to add Blue Ribbon to our mail box with all the time and work they've done here. I've sent a note off to Blue Ribbon so we'll see what we can do next. Well I wanted bamboo flooring in the kitchen and couldn't do it, so now I'll get it in the dining room. It's all about compromise.

Friday, Mark & I went over to look at stone for the new mailbox column. I did tell you that we have to replace the mailbox since the last one was blown down in a storm a couple of weeks ago. We found some nice stone, it's manufactured so it's lighter than real stone. It was a cool place to check out (and I wish we could have wandered around some more). We'll have to head over there again soon, I need to find a four foot piece of flat stone to put over the filter of the water garden to limit the amount of algae growing in there.

So, while the kitchen may be just about finished, the house will continue to need updates, upgrades and maintenance. Guess I'll have to think about renaming my blog.