From The Past: July 2, 2008

***Newsflash***

Andrew is no longer Private First Class. He was officially promoted to Lance Corporal today. YEA!!!

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I am sure you are sick of hearing about our hot water heater debacle. I am too. Hopefully, it will all be over with by next weekend. I will keep you updated on our progress.

As I type this, new carpet is being laid in Andrew’s room where flooding ruined his old carpeting. I am holed up in our bedroom with Guido. We don’t ever lock him up by himself; I think that would totally freak him out. I realize the carpet-layers cannot work with an overexcited Pug hopping around, so here we are. It is funny to watch his head twist and turn as he hears different noises. He is dying to be in the midst of all the action!

These were Andrew’s old closet doors. (We have these doors in every room and I plan to replace them one set at a time.) His Futon is that black framework you see standing upright and to the left:

Below, you can see Kevin painting the wall under the window. We had already primed everything first. You can also see the concrete subfloor:

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It is literally almost three hours later and I have just finished taking photos to share with you. The carpet-layers left hours ago. This is the new carpet:

Kevin hung new plantation blinds and then he installed new closet doors. Before, trim hung on the sides of Andrew’s old doors, however in order to get the new doors to fit correctly, he had to remove the trim. It’s not that big of a deal, but I will have to go back and touch up the paint where the trim had been.

It is now after 10 PM and I thought for sure we would have the room back together, furniture and all. We haven’t even started that part.

Here goes.