Rain delay!

So the deck is finished and they had gotten about 25% into the oil stuff when it starting rainging... and raining... It rained all weekend so now we'll dry out until Tuesday.

Refrigerator install finally finished!

The side panel of this had to be reordered because of a mis-cut. Apparently cabinets don't come with any instructions.

Granite picture

Finally managed a somewhat better picture of the granite.

Shelves are in, Refrigerator somewhat in

Here's the open shelving in the corner that was installed yesterday. I need to go buy better looking things to put on it! I just pulled some random stuff out and threw it up there. Mainly I wanted the cookbooks accessible.

The refrigerator panel is not on. When the appliance company went to install all the appliances last week, we found that this side panel should have been out 1 more inch. Well, it was pulled out by the contractor then, but time ran out and of course, their next available appointment to come back out is 9/21. So we wait... We're going to need to use a trim piece on the back since it was moved an inch or order a new side panel... sigh. And yes, one missing handle there - need to find out where they put it!

The hood is also not fully installed... making a grinding noise so we are waiting on a service call there.

We are using the kitchen now, but without working sinks... We wanted this fancy deep strainer basket to make composting easier, but turns out this thing hasn't arrived yet - 4 weeks now! I'm told Friday... maybe we'll have sinks before the weekend. It's getting old carrying dishes up and down to the laundry sink (yeah, no dishwasher yet either - it plugs into the garbage disposal plumbing).

I'm on the edge - don't make me jump!

Hobbes is 17.5 years old. He jumped onto the counters by the wall (oops, undermount sink not visible from the floor!). He then leaped the 42 inches to the island. Impressive for an old man!

OT - but look what I found in my backyard!

Island / floors