Sunday, June 15, 2025

6/15/25

Rick arrived Friday morning with the trailer and the remaining upper and lower cabinets, and I arrived Friday afternoon. He unloaded the cabinets and had the upper ones installed when I got there. The lower ones were a little more complicated to get leveled up (nothing in the house is square), and Rick ended up having to make a trip under the house in some mud to repair a pipe that broke off while attempting to get the kitchen sink cabinet in place. 

It was a hot and humid weekend, so Saturday morning before 8am we decided to carry the tree branches to the city brush dumping area near the lake while we had the trailer available. It ended up taking two trips. We also made a trip to the city hall dumpster to take a lot of stuff that's been collecting under the car port for a while (an old furnace, the old windows, old pipes, paneling, some old furniture from the storage shed, etc.). We worked more on the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, installed the window seats, installed the 2 remaining floor cabinets (somehow I didn't get a picture of the kitchen with these in place!). I also hoed weeds and sanded previously filled nail holes in the doorways, windows, and baseboards.

Sunday, we installed the baseboards in the living room, 3rd bedroom, and some in the kitchen (we'll have to get the utility room flooring and kitchen window bench in place and the kitchen cabinet bases finalized in order to finish), caulked baseboards/windows/door frames, and filled nail holes in the newly installed areas. I also removed all interior door hinges to make caulking easier and to prepare for painting the trim soon and vacuumed the walls and floor in the master bedroom. We also loaded up the old tower and cables onto the trailer and brought it back to Lubbock. Sunday morning was quite stormy, and we lost some branches in a backyard tree. 

Cabinets loaded in van and on trailer
Upper cabinets in place

Main bathroom cabinet in progress
Over toilet cabinet in main bathroom
After the trip under the house to repair pipe
East wall cabinets in progress
1st load Saturday morning
A cranky neighborhood duck
Face off between van and duck
Junk headed to the city rolloff dumpster
Cleaned carport
Boone visiting Becky while his parents are in Italy (and, yes, those are stickers in his beard)
Rita
Broken tree branches and lots of wind

Living room baseboards
Living room baseboards
Another view
3rd bedroom final baseboard in place
Getting closer on main bathroom cabinet
The tower (7 pieces + cables)
Baseboard progress in kitchen

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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