Before anyone arrived this morning, I stepped out into the sunroom and found a Cardinal had gotten into the room. It was very unhappy, flying from one end of the room to the other. Bouncing off the windows around the hot tub at one end and then bouncing off the french doors at the other. I opened a couple of doors and it finally decided to leave.
Chris was the first one to show up this morning. He continued his work in the garage and then come back to the sunroom. I handed him the four HDMI cables we purchased and he routed them from the location of the television (above the fireplace) over to where they will enter the bar. In addition to the HDMI cables, we asked to have a coaxial and a cat 5 cable run between the bar and the television. He did not stay very long. We returned from some errands about 1:00 pm and he was gone.
About 8:00 am the brick layers arrived (four weeks after we were originally told they would start). They did not lay any bricks today, but they got things set up. Mike arrived shortly after the brick layers and told me that they were predicting one week to finish the brick work. They hauled seven pallets of bricks (3,500 bricks) around to the back, 100 bricks at a time. It rained this afternoon. It is forecast to rain much of the weekend and into next week. Really a shame since the past four weeks have been dry and cool. But, in hindsight, we were not ready for the brick layers to begin four weeks ago. It was not until two weeks ago that Mike had finished installation of the window molds on the garage and just today, Chris finished installation of the garage exterior light and power boxes. Mike told me today that the foreman would get T's approval on the color of the mortar today, but he never came around. Mike also said he has told the brick layers to put a upright "soldier" above each overhead door on the garage and above the fireplace on the sunroom.
As with Chris, the brick layers were gone by the time we had returned from our errands. Another week has gone by with no return of the slate installers.
Mike had told us to expect Jerry (painter/stainer) to show up today to talk with T about the staining. He did not show up, or if he did, we did not see him and he did not pick up the wood samples Mike and I had laid out for him. Mike understands that after next week, we will be gone for a couple of weeks.
One of our errands was to visit Gerald (stained glass) to talk with him about making a couple of stained glass panels for the two upper bar cabinets. T showed him the picture of the stained glass window we have on the east entry of the main house. She told him she envisioned a fleur-de-lis similar to what he did for above the sunroom east door. Gerald said he would send us a proposed design next week.
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