Well hey there! Thanks for dropping by. You’re probably thinking that I have abandoned the blog, but no, I have just been out there living life and haven’t had a whole lot of time to write about it!
So, a couple of updates from last time. I FINALLY got around to changing the locks on the entry doors to the house, and adding dead bolts. I hate to say this so publicly, but the door and lock situations to this point have been pretty sad. The locks were not much better than something you would put on your bedroom door. Ok, maybe not, because they were actually keyed locks, but the upper and lower had different keys, I never did figure out which key was for the lower one, and they had no dead bolts. Bad news, right? I’d purchased new Weiser Smart Key lock sets way back in December – like, Cristmas week. I also purchased a template/guide tool and drill set that helps you know exactly were to put the holes in the doors. Honestly, the worst part was figuring out exactly where to drill the hole in the door frame for the deadbolt to bolt into. It took several tries. I also had a defective dead bolt for the floor downstairs. I tried and tried, and the screws would not screw it together. Finally I took it back to Rona and the guy figured out that the threads that the screws have to screw into, to hold it together, were damaged. Picked up a replacement and, voila, new locks, and the smart key system allowed me to rekey the new deadbolt for downstairs to the same key as upstairs. Easy!
The next and greatest update is on the progress of the kitchen. Jimmy brought help and he and his buddy Stu got my wall taken down, beam installed, etc. last week. I the got Rich, the electrician, to come back in Friday and he finished wiring up the kitchen, appliances, etc. and changed out the electrical panel. By 9pm Friday evening everything was working… and I had a disaster of a house to ready for a dinner party!!
I was up and working by about 8:30 Saturday morning, and by 5:30 when the first of my friends arrived, it felt like a home in here, for really the first time since I moved in. Here are a couple of photos.
