Oct 7,8 - chasing my tail

It's been a wild few days.

On Monday of course we were at Stef's, I laid the Ditra, we had dinner with Alnasir and we stayed overnight in Burlington.

On Tuesday we went up to Belwood close to Guelph, saw the new frame (it's beautiful !) and discussed other options with Hugh, racks, cases etc.  We then had our respective dentist appointments (Sandy cleaning and me new crowns installed) and headed north, mostly beating the traffic out of Toronto.  We stopped in Barrie to pickup a few groceries at Costco, including a turkey that is now in the freezer.

On Wednesday I went back to Stef's and we tiled all day.  She chose a herringbone pattern which meant that we had very few whole tiles to lay in that small space and a whole lot of cutting.  I had intended to leave by 4pm, stop at Costco, have dinner and then get on my 8:15 Randonneurs Ontario conference call but I didn't get away until 5:45.  Sandy emailed Arthur and he initiated the call and I joined a few minutes late.  I had dinner after the call, still need to figure when I'll hit Costco for a few things that I want to bring south with us.

I hated to leave with the project not completed ! Stef and I got the lion's share of the work done, including a few tiles that are cut but not mortared down yet.  There are a half-dozen that she'll have to cut.  Some of the cuts were easy, a number were diddly, which takes the time.  Stef's also going to have to figure out how to mate the tiles with the stair bullnose, likely have to do some craftmanship there ... or would that be craftwomanship ?  She's good at that and ultimately she has to be happy with the result, so better her than me !

I have to say that's the same with the herringbone, although I'll hold final judgement until I see the final result.  I'm sure that it will look good, just not what I would have done ?  Who knows.

It's lucky that I went to Stef's on Wednesday rather than Thursday, my original plan.  When I was on the conference call with RO, I got an email from Paul Mullen (powerebypaul) to give him a call.  Yeah, I was thinking that he was going to bail on doing this generator installation on Monday.  I talked to him and his only problem is the electrician, who can't get Monday off from his family ... so ... John the electrician is coming today, which is ok by me.  Paul and the plumber will come on Monday, move the unit, do the plumbing fire it up and test it.  We're still on track.  Much can go wrong, of course, and given that, I'll have the transfer switch setup so that I could hook up the portable generator if necessary.

And ... that's about it.  I've got a bunch of phone calls to make today.

Onward !