Day 7: The Waiting Game

The third day of Week 2 was for the most part spent waiting. I knew the drywall crew had to return to put up a second coat of mud (and to fix a certain hole), but I didn't know when they were coming. That meant that I had to stay home so that I could let them in.

Well, the day rolled along, the hours passed, and no crew arrived. Things I could have done in the morning or even early afternoon (had I known no crew was coming) just didn't get done, and the dogs and I hung out at home.

Finally, at about 3 p.m., the crew arrived. There was a funny moment when I showed them that nothing had been done to the back side of the wall created by covering the one door into the kitchen -- they had never noticed, and the contractor had forgotten to mention it!

They were sympathetic to my request for rodent-proofing the kitchen, and here is the result:

I'm much happier now that the perfect entry spot has been covered.

The next step will be sanding and then painting the whole kitchen/dining room. We're still expecting the hardwood to be done next week. Once that's done, there'll be no more tromping across the floors with big dirty boots! (I guess we'll have to figure out a system of plastic or runners of some kind.)

So things continue to roll along, and we're still doing fine (apart from not liking to wait for people to arrive). Yesterday I actually had a day with no restaurant food!!