It's been a busy few days and throw in a day of being sick with it. 4th of July we spent putting another seal coat on the patio. I brushed the sealant in the cuts and DH rolled it on. Luckily it was still a nice cool day in the 60's. Here's a picture
The border is stamped to look like slate (that was DH's idea). I'm ready for patio furniture! LOL.
Let me back up to Tuesday. I only had to work a half day and the 3 young guys were out finishing stamping the 2nd half. We decided to try the take out pizza from the local tavern and take out for us and the concrete guys for lunch. I thought it tasted pretty good.
After we got home Wednesday afternoon I started feeling sick. Stomach ache and trips to the bathroom. Ugh. I felt pretty crummy all night. I had hardly eaten much that day, so couldn't imagine it could have been the coffee, donut and OJ I had for breakfast. Lunch I only had a granola bar and water. Dinner didn't happen. The only thing I could think (unless it as a flu bug) was something with that pizza from the day before.
Yesterday I was better, but still not 100%. Had too much to do to lay around as I wanted to go into the city and do grocery shopping. I dropped DH off at the property, as he had to do another seal coat on the 2nd part. The drywaller guys showed up to get started. We were kind of surprised. Figured they'd bale on us this holiday week. I got home and unloaded and put away my groceries and then DH called that I needed to pick out the garage doors - now! A couple of calls with the builder, so I knew what to look at online and also which level of doors fall into the pricing he put on our bid?! Calls back with DH to have him tell me what level of steel and insulation (there were 3 options). A call to the building supply guy to start to tell him what we wanted a quote on, only for him to have more questions I couldn't answer. Back to DH and then another call back to building supply guy. He was supposed to call me back by the end of the afternoon with the pricing and of course he didn't. It's now late morning the next day and still haven't heard back from him. Grrrr. I hate having to call people back that know they are supposed to call me! Not to mention that the doors are going to be like double what the stupid builder put in our bid. (of course) We are going to make some adjustments, to down price them, but I can't make any decisions until the building supply guy gets me the cost breakdown. Like for example, DH doesn't really need automatic door openers for the 3 regular sized doors, just the big roll up door, so if we take that cost out, I'm sure we'll save some. But again, I have no idea how much until he sends me the cost breakdown.
Then I spent half of this morning trying to track down our lights shipment, that supposedly shipped from mfg on the 26th. It should not take 11 days. It was first shipped via UPS Supply Chain Solutions and then they pass off to a local delivery company. After a couple of calls it was determined this order didn't get my name and ph# attached to it, so they were still sitting on it at the local carrier. The local carrier is supposed to call me, but in the meantime DH texted me that they just got delivered.
Ahhh. Too much going on.
I really like the look of that patio - but I sure as heck wouldn't want to be doing the work on it. Not sick or in the heat. I'm a wimp like that! But then I don't think I'd have the nerves to self-build either. You're braver than I am.
ReplyDeletethankfully it was still pretty cool Wed am. But yesterday and today over 90. Ugh! and poor DH is out in it there all day
DeleteI love the patio I can't wait for you to furnish it either. Pictures when it is done!
ReplyDeleteoh, there will definitely be pics ;) but the rate everything is going it'll probably be next summer by the time I get to buy patio furniture LOL
DeleteI love the concrete stamping. I have never heard of it on such a large scale. Did anyone else get sick after eating the pizza? I bought patio chairs at Lowe's last year in late summer marked from $50 to $12.50. Maybe you could get deals this year and just hold onto the furniture.
ReplyDeleteDH said he had a bit of a stomach ache the day after me. Seems kind of a long time after eating it for us to get sick, but maybe.
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