Thursday, August 28, 2008
Grasshopper on Window
It's been pretty buggy around the garden this year. Between the slugs and the cabbage worms it's amazing that I have a garden at all. We also have tons of grasshoppers. Like this one that had a peek through my window.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Bathroom in Progress
After the Home Depot fiasco we had the most lovely, low stress shopping experience ever at Home Hardware. Not only was the customer service amazing but everything cost less as well.
The reno is taking a lot longer than expected. The bathroom had to be completely gutted and all the plumbing and wiring replaced. This annoys me because we went with bleh flooring because the flooring we really wanted was special order and we needed flooring a.s.a.p. Limey though the flooring would be installed by Sunday night but at this rate it won't be in until September. I could have had my second choice (first choice was not logical) instead of what we ended up with.
Whatever, Limey likes it and it may work with my plan. If not we can always replace some day.
Here's my inspiration for the bathroom design.
I found it several years ago at Home Sense. It was $10, I thought, what the heck and brought it home hoping someday I would get around to renovating the bathroom.
We will be putting up floor to ceiling beadboard. I'm trying for an all white look with some nature inspired accents (green/brown).
Limey is building the vanity out of our old bed frame. Should be interesting. I'm crossing my fingers that the bathroom will be finished soon. I'm starting to smell!
The reno is taking a lot longer than expected. The bathroom had to be completely gutted and all the plumbing and wiring replaced. This annoys me because we went with bleh flooring because the flooring we really wanted was special order and we needed flooring a.s.a.p. Limey though the flooring would be installed by Sunday night but at this rate it won't be in until September. I could have had my second choice (first choice was not logical) instead of what we ended up with.
Whatever, Limey likes it and it may work with my plan. If not we can always replace some day.
Here's my inspiration for the bathroom design.
I found it several years ago at Home Sense. It was $10, I thought, what the heck and brought it home hoping someday I would get around to renovating the bathroom.
We will be putting up floor to ceiling beadboard. I'm trying for an all white look with some nature inspired accents (green/brown).
Limey is building the vanity out of our old bed frame. Should be interesting. I'm crossing my fingers that the bathroom will be finished soon. I'm starting to smell!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Home Depot or Home Crappot
I'm never shopping there again.
We've had numerous horrible experiences at Home Depot. Limey spent 3 hours once waiting for a lumber order that was promised to be assembled by several different people including the manager and they still didn't start it.
Still we kept going back because it's has a better selection and despite never being able to find anyone to help it's still more convenient.
But no more!
I actually had to take a moment in the middle of Crappot to pull myself together.
We are trying to renovate our bathroom.
This is how it looks normally. Lots of pink vinyl on the walls, a plank screwed in all across one side to hide the joints between two pieces of drywall because someone was too lazy to do the job properly. Pink everything, vinyl all over the walls, extreme amounts of silicone caulking everywhere. It's depressing.
So the other day out of the blue Limey says "Let's reno the bathroom this weekend!". Stupidly I agree. He started demo Wednesday night in anticipation of a Thursday shopping spree and a weekend reno.
I had already been keeping a list of my reno plan for some time now so we took the list to Home Depot on Wednesday (prior to demo) so we could plan the purchase.
My design is planned entirely around beadboard walls. They had a beadboard display with prices. We fell in love with this amazing chocolate brown flooring. Everything was great.
Last night (our 9th anniversary) we went to Home Depot prepared to buy. It took forever to find anyone to order the floor only to find out it's not appropriate for the bathroom (despite everything I read on the net, my bad). Depressing but whatever, we found a different one that was almost as great. Placed the order. Picked up the paint. On to the beadboard.
This is where my mini meltdown occurred. While I went to find someone to grab me a tub (couldn't find anyone) Limey set about searching for someone to get us some beadboard.
Despite advertising it for sale, apparently Home Depot has lost it's supplier for beadboard and no longer has any in stock. My entire plan fell apart. The flooring that I ordered, the paint I picked out, everything revolved around the beadboard. I begged my husband (who enjoys lying) to tell me the truth.
The truth is Home Depot sucks!
After I regrouped, I said fuck it lets just get everything else and maybe we can find it elsewhere. We finally found someone to get the other stuff (tub, tub surround etc) together for a delivery order.
We went to the saleswoman's desk where she processed the order. Izzy took this moment to start sucking on Limey's shirt so I took her out to the car to feed her. I figured it was pretty dead in there so checkout would be quick.
20 minutes later, I went back into the store to see what the hell was going on. Limey is standing there at the checkout looking completely baffled. When they tried to put the order through the till the computer came up with an error. Nobody knew what the error meant and nobody cared.
We had to go pick up my daughter who was being looked after by a friend so Limey told them he'd drop us off at home and go back for the order, hoping they'd figure it out by then. That was after 2.5 hours.
When we got to the car, I told him to cancel the entire thing. When we arrived home he tried calling the Crappot to cancel but none of their lines were answering. So back he went to complain and cancel.
What did the customer service lady say when he complained about the horrible service (today and in the past) and request to cancel?
"Okay".
No apologies, no attempt to keep our money, nothing.
How the hell is Crappot still in business?
Now as we figure out what to do (very little choice in this small town), my bathroom looks like this;
We've had numerous horrible experiences at Home Depot. Limey spent 3 hours once waiting for a lumber order that was promised to be assembled by several different people including the manager and they still didn't start it.
Still we kept going back because it's has a better selection and despite never being able to find anyone to help it's still more convenient.
But no more!
I actually had to take a moment in the middle of Crappot to pull myself together.
We are trying to renovate our bathroom.
This is how it looks normally. Lots of pink vinyl on the walls, a plank screwed in all across one side to hide the joints between two pieces of drywall because someone was too lazy to do the job properly. Pink everything, vinyl all over the walls, extreme amounts of silicone caulking everywhere. It's depressing.
So the other day out of the blue Limey says "Let's reno the bathroom this weekend!". Stupidly I agree. He started demo Wednesday night in anticipation of a Thursday shopping spree and a weekend reno.
I had already been keeping a list of my reno plan for some time now so we took the list to Home Depot on Wednesday (prior to demo) so we could plan the purchase.
My design is planned entirely around beadboard walls. They had a beadboard display with prices. We fell in love with this amazing chocolate brown flooring. Everything was great.
Last night (our 9th anniversary) we went to Home Depot prepared to buy. It took forever to find anyone to order the floor only to find out it's not appropriate for the bathroom (despite everything I read on the net, my bad). Depressing but whatever, we found a different one that was almost as great. Placed the order. Picked up the paint. On to the beadboard.
This is where my mini meltdown occurred. While I went to find someone to grab me a tub (couldn't find anyone) Limey set about searching for someone to get us some beadboard.
Despite advertising it for sale, apparently Home Depot has lost it's supplier for beadboard and no longer has any in stock. My entire plan fell apart. The flooring that I ordered, the paint I picked out, everything revolved around the beadboard. I begged my husband (who enjoys lying) to tell me the truth.
The truth is Home Depot sucks!
After I regrouped, I said fuck it lets just get everything else and maybe we can find it elsewhere. We finally found someone to get the other stuff (tub, tub surround etc) together for a delivery order.
We went to the saleswoman's desk where she processed the order. Izzy took this moment to start sucking on Limey's shirt so I took her out to the car to feed her. I figured it was pretty dead in there so checkout would be quick.
20 minutes later, I went back into the store to see what the hell was going on. Limey is standing there at the checkout looking completely baffled. When they tried to put the order through the till the computer came up with an error. Nobody knew what the error meant and nobody cared.
We had to go pick up my daughter who was being looked after by a friend so Limey told them he'd drop us off at home and go back for the order, hoping they'd figure it out by then. That was after 2.5 hours.
When we got to the car, I told him to cancel the entire thing. When we arrived home he tried calling the Crappot to cancel but none of their lines were answering. So back he went to complain and cancel.
What did the customer service lady say when he complained about the horrible service (today and in the past) and request to cancel?
"Okay".
No apologies, no attempt to keep our money, nothing.
How the hell is Crappot still in business?
Now as we figure out what to do (very little choice in this small town), my bathroom looks like this;
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Can I Do It?
Yes I can!
It was a lot of messing around and I definitely need to come up with a more streamlined process but I did manage to can the 5 lbs of beets from my garden without anyone getting injured.
Hopefully nobody dies when it comes time to eat them.
It was a lot of messing around and I definitely need to come up with a more streamlined process but I did manage to can the 5 lbs of beets from my garden without anyone getting injured.
Hopefully nobody dies when it comes time to eat them.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
$20 worth of old brick
equals an appropriately rustic brick path.
I was perusing Kiji Classifieds when I spotted an ad for old fire bricks. We offered $20 and Limey ran on over to pick them up in our truck wannabe, Black Betty the Kia.
All that was required was some leveling, a layer of sand, laying out the bricks and filling them in. It was about a day of work with some swimming in between phases to cool off.
When it was all done, Hayley christened the path with a little jig.
I was perusing Kiji Classifieds when I spotted an ad for old fire bricks. We offered $20 and Limey ran on over to pick them up in our truck wannabe, Black Betty the Kia.
All that was required was some leveling, a layer of sand, laying out the bricks and filling them in. It was about a day of work with some swimming in between phases to cool off.
When it was all done, Hayley christened the path with a little jig.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Through the Keyhole
Limey must have been bored the other day because he narrated a tour of the backyard. His inspiration was some old British tv show. I thought it was amusing so here it is.
Friday, August 1, 2008
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