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The countertops were installed yesterday.
Steve-the-Builder called just as I was getting down to work on my book. I have a book due in five weeks. I’d tell you what page I’m on, but I’m so behind that if I said it out loud I would go into such hysterical panic, I might throw myself off a cliff. I saw this TV show a long time ago where not only did the female character in the book not tell her family that she wrote romance novels, when she did finally “have” to admit her “embarrassing secret” to her family because she was behind on her book, she then wrote THE ENTIRE BOOK in one night. I’d go on about how insulting this entire episode was, but I’m hoping I can write THE ENTIRE BOOK in one night. Because right now? I’m getting nowhere with it. So please, allow me my fantasies. (Dear Editor, I am making this up. I am so ahead on my book, it’s ridiculous. And it is EXCELLENT, rest assured. Love, Suzanne.)
“You’ve got to come out here and look at this,” Steve-the-Builder said.
I would go into everything that is wrong with the island countertops, but I exhausted myself explaining it over the phone to two managers at Lowe’s yesterday. The measurements were done wrong–by their countertop guy, on site–so they will be replaced at their cost. In the meantime, the island counters are temporarily set so the cooktop and oven can be placed and the kitchen can be functional until the new counters come.
The island counters are really dusty from construction work in that picture, by the way. This is what the counters really look like. The countertop on the sink side of the kitchen worked out fine. I cleaned the countertop here, lit a candle, and tried to think pretty pink and blue thoughts in the midst of yet another obstacle.
The other day, Georgia said, “I wonder what the first thing you’ll move over there will be?”
Umm, a candle? :smile:
Then I went shopping. I’ve been wanting one of those fridges with the freezer drawer on bottom, so it was pretty exciting to get this one. It comes to the house today. There were also missing light fixtures to find and other boring things and by the time I got out of Lowe’s, my feet hurt.
What’s not coming to the house today? The drilling rig. It rained on and off all day yesterday. The drilling rig needs to come across the river ford and the water’s too high. And so the drilling is now rescheduled for Monday. In the meantime, we are MOVING today! It’s moving day and I am moving!! Okay, I can’t move IN, but I am MOVING! I will be taking things over all day and when I’m not moving things, I’ll be painting trim so that all we need to do once it’s installed is take care of touch-up.
And, even as the universe piles on more adversity, the universe takes pity and removes one.
I reached the farm yesterday just as Verizon was pulling away after cutting the tree out of the road and repairing their line.
Just when I’d gotten good at driving under it!
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on March 8, 2008
And we readers of your Blog never tire of your wonderful pictures and stories of all your sweet animals! - 
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There are *always* setbacks and obstacles to just about anything we do in life. I’ve not had the pleasure and frustration of having a house built, so I can only imagine the realities of it — wrong measurements, delays, well-drilling…LOL.
But what I do know: It all WILL get done, you WILL be settled in, and your home — not just a house — will be a true Joy for you.
-Kim
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and it is “moving” along…trees included.
So glad you have a big porch for staging area
for getting into the house from the mud.
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I know you are excited, don’t work to hard today.
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So look to the positive:
Tree obstacle removed, lets hope the rest of the trunk doesn’t slide down before and block the road.
Most of the counters work … water is important. Ask Steve-the-builder if he has a grill you can borrow, 16 needs to learn how to cook as well as carpentry.
Moving as much of the ’small stuff’ now will help in the long run when the ‘big stuff’ has to be moved.
My mom purchased a bottom freezer GE in 1964 that lasted until Hurricane Fran .. all the electrical surges and transformer malfunctions finally took it out. We had a hard time finding a replacement that year, but we did. Mr Lemon lasted 1 yr and was replaced by still another bottom freezer. You found the right one with the Pull-Out-Drawer. All we could find was a swinging door. They are miserable design, the pull out bins still require me to sit on the floor (yuck).
Can’t wait to read about your camping epsiodes
M
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don’t worry about the tree sliding down the hill. it’s gonna stay where it is unless somebody cuts it up for firewood.
have you found out how deep the wells run in that area? i remember ours was at 117 feet, and i wished we had gone deeper. we used to get iron deposits when it rained. iron out was my friend. dh is a geologist and he says theres always water, you just have to dig deep enough.
:weather: hope you don’t get any of this!
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I will say the countertop colors are very pretty. Even if measured poorly. I love them.
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I remember when we had our house built – it drove me nuts, all the little setbacks. Just lemme in! That’s what I wanted to scream.
Everything is coming together nicely despite the minor setbacks. It looks beautiful!
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Have a good day..
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Have fun moving boxes, I just got the last box out of our other house, 6 months later, and it goes on the market on Tuesday.
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(I’m sending fierce thoughts to the water goddesses that water is found…easily…next drilling!)
Love the granite! Great choice.
abb
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Also There is a real good article in the Golden Seal magazine about witching a well. There is an 83 year old man who does it for free! He likes doing it. They say it’s an art and that only 1 in 1,000 people have the gift. He uses metal rods and not tree limbs. I wanna try it!
Well, I hear you guys got yourselves an Ice storm down there. My Uncle came back up here because he had a fender bender down there. He lives up here and in Looneyville.
He is now stuck up here now because we got like 2 feet of snow and we can’t drive anywhere and I am bored now. It’s really really crazy! I haven’t seen snow like this for ages.
I’ve been moving stuff from downstairs to upstairs and I can’t imagine moving a whole house full right now.
How exciting it will be when you are all in!
Just so you know, I am sure there is no coincidence that we are related because I have the worst luck too! Like those countertops. I got the phone cord tangled in my hair yesterday and had to go crying to my husband while he was in the shower to help me!
watch those phone cords girls!
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You mean you don’t write your books in one night?
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I meant…you’re so fast that if you weren’t so far ahead (hello, Suzanne’s editor!) you could write your books in one night. If you wanted to. But of course, you don’t, because you’re so far ahead of schedule. Right? Right?