Counter Tops…Finally!

Our long national nightmare is almost over.

The guy for the counter top install is here. His name is Robert and he is working on them. He got here about nine and was ready to go, except nobody had dropped off the material for him. I think they got here by ten and dropped everything off and Robert got to work.

The island counter top is still a mystery because he hasn’t worked with downdraft fans before. He seems confident that he can make it work.

At the same time, Tammy and Lou are having a new pool liner put in. Their old one has had a leak for the last couple of years and it was time to replace. So we’re walking back and forth between here and the pool to see what’s happening and get in our supervising bona fides.

Susan and I aren’t doing much else than watching and supervising.

I just went out and picked a bunch of tomatoes. I had better start eating some before I run out of storage room. Our little garden is doing great this year. We don’t have much variety. Just tomatoes, peppers, chives and some weird cabbage.

12:38PM: Okay, this is exciting. The first counter top is in. It’s in the Pantry. It looks Pantry-ific. 

I’m not sure what’s next. Robert is working on the small areas because he is waiting for some more material for build up.

Next is this small little counter. Robert still has to put the rounded nose on it.

And there’s our nose.

I think the sink counter is next.

Yup!

Now we are down to the tense part. The Island. I sure do hope this is going to work. It’s the one thing I’ve been worried about concerning the install. Well…we are about to find out.

6:05PM: Robert is still here and it looks like he’ll be back tomorrow.

As feared, the island was a little precarious. We had a problem with the fan sitting flush on the counter. It took some jiggling. We jiggled it quite a bit and it finally dropped.

It’s not complete yet but we are a major step closer to having a working kitchen.