People and wildlife (you can guess which I prefer!)

Well, we don't get a break today (Saturday) from painter lady. Ugh. When other subs are working here all day and take their lunch break? They go sit in their vehicles. She plops her butt down on our fireplace hearth or the staircase steps and eats her lunch. The stone on the fireplace and heart isn't sealed yet, so don't stick your pop can on it. Just shaking my head. I can guarantee you she would be using the new microwave in the house if DH hadn't said no. Both she and her dh made comments like "hey, we can heat our lunch up now". DH just said "no one is using my wife's brand new appliances before she gets to use them".

Then we had a big upset time with her and her hubby. Our front entry door has 2 sidelight windows and a top window. Only the two sidelights have been delivered, the top one is apparently lost at the building supplier. BOTH dh and I asked her on Monday if she needed those sidelights with the door,as she was starting to stain it. Nope. Yesterday she kept asking DH about them, in a round about way, and he said, well they are being stored in my shop so they don't get broken, you said you didn't need them? So he comes in and unwraps them. Turns out they are surrounded by wood that needs to be stained. She thought she was all done staining and lacquering! Plus, something to do with our contractor submitted a draw for ALL the painting work last week, paid in full. (We even questioned him and he said well, then just approve how much you think is done. Mostly we questioned because you pay someone before it's done and then it never seems to get finished, just like there is still work she needs to do on our shop!). There is still lots of work left for her to do (especially caulking on the outside that they didn't get done before it was too cold).

According to painter and her hubby she hasn't been paid anything yet, for the house painting, by our contractor (but then they both said they don't bill him until the job is completely done). He took a partial draw of $2500 on it a couple months ago and the rest last week. I don't know, but she sure was upset (not at us) and her hubby's face was all red. I walked in in the middle of their and Dh's conversation about it all and I'm like what's going on?!  Well, she had sitting on her butt, literally, all afternoon doing absolutely nothing, while her hubby does trim work, trying to talk him into leaving early because she didn't have anything to do. So, guess now she has something to do, eh?

I decided to get some cabinet pulls for all the cabinets doors and drawers. I looked at Lowe's last Friday. They were like $3 to $4 each. I need 66. Then I found some in bigger packages on Amazon and much cheaper. Pulls were .98 ea and the handles were $1.30 each. But I couldn't come to a decision on which ones to order. Just a bit difference in styles to chose from. I'd look and not decide. Look and not decide. I'm kind of glad I kept waiting and looking, because finally I think I figured out what I wasn't liking. I looked through cabinet pictures on Pinterest and realized I didn't like the look of using knobs on the doors and handles on the drawers. I liked the look where they were all handles used. Whew!. So I ordered 7 boxes that hold 10 each and saved some money at $1.30 each compared to Lowe's. 

The guy who did our rockery work on the property last spring stopped by. He and Dh got to be pretty good friends. He hadn't seen DH in quite awhile and the first thing he said was "you've lost a lot of weight". Yep, 40 pounds in the last year, since this build began.  While we were showing him the house, we were in my office room and this is what we saw outside :)