Tenth Week Was Very Exciting

It's funny how time can be both blistering fast and agonizingly slow at the same time.  This week was completely full of both, but I'm here to tell you it was exciting all the way.

As of late Saturday, the cabinets were installed, the trim and molding installed, the garage door installed, and about 90% of the brick installed.

Yes, only 90%.  And that was because the brick masons ran out of brick.  Now they have to return and get all their gear set up, to knock out the last 10%.  As fast as they are, they can do it in a day or less, but running out of brick was probably not in their plans for a perfect week.

A couple of minor issues with pocket doors and a slightly too large refrigerator cabinet was corrected quickly, and most of the construction debris was picked up.  It still looks like a ...... don't get me started about how messy construction sites can be.

Meanwhile, we already purchased our refrigerator and will now buy the wine chiller for the beverage center.

The office furniture we found on Craig's List was just too good 'a quality to cut up for our home-office, so we sold it, actually at a profit, but still a great deal to the people who purchased it for their business.  I plan to build exactly what we want for our home-office, and it won't look like the offices at a branch bank.

I also happened on a really nice quality Treadmill which I plan to set up in the garage/shop/gym/and hang-out room.  Yes, the garage is so nice being over-sized and very prominent, it will likely be the new hangout when Judy and I are working on projects.  So much so that I plan to have A/C ducts extended into the garage.

Finally, we closed out the week by being invited to the Terra Mariae quarterly luncheon for residents. It was fun and we got to meet a lot more of our neighbors.  Yes, I took photos and made them into a video.  Here's the link:  Terra Mariae Luncheon

Here are a few photos of the week's progress on the house.