Today
is my last full day / overnight at the cabin.
It hasn’t been a true full day as I went home briefly this morning to
take Missy home and yes, check out the progress on the renovation…
Today
started at 4:28 AM for me – Missy decided at about midnight that she would
rather come in and have cuddles and sleeps with me and Jasmine and that at 4:28
AM (I checked) she was awake and insisting that she needed to go outside.
Ahem.
Nope
– not going to happen. She has had a
BALL down at the cabin this past week – spent most of her time outside (day and
night) hunting. She’s had a tubby little
belly all week long and the snakes that normally live near the compost pile we
have here have been absent. I think
she’s had a great time eating snakes, small birds and mice all week long!
Anyhow,
not trusting that I would be able to convince her to come to me (I know some
people have trained their feline companions to come when called, but I have had
zero success with that concept!) if I left her here with me and Jasmine right
to the last minutes on the beach, I decided to take her home this morning in
advance of closing up the cabin tomorrow late in the afternoon.
So
I found myself stumbling across at the barest of walkable low tides in the dark
at about 6 this morning carrying a cat (meowing) in a crate and holding on (for
dear life) to a dog’s leash and a flashlight that powers by squeezing its
handle repeatedly.
Yeah
– not one of my finer plans.
I
did make it all the way across without falling down (yay me!) and made good
time back home to drop off the cat.
OK
– yes, I admit it, I also wanted to see the progress on the renovations.
The
curtains were all closed (a good sign that my contractor is paying attention to
home security) when I pulled into the driveway.
There was a large pile of debris (the old bathtub, the old vanity, some
drywall and some pieces of wood I have to assume were cut out of the wall when
they created the “through way” from the bathroom into the laundry room spaces.
They
were actually not as far along in the project as I had thought they might
be. OK – I admit it, I don’t know enough
about these kinds of renovations to know how things will look as the days
progress, but I thought that at this stage (with me expected home around 5PM
tomorrow that the work would be mostly finished and that perhaps the only
things left to be done at this point would be things like painting and maybe
installation of floor and door mouldings.
What
I saw made me worry that I may not have a bathroom when I get home tomorrow.
The bathroom floor (which has to be fully removed and replaced) was still in
place… this means that the plumbing and electrical that needs to be completed
is not yet done. The old windows are still in place.
Granted,
I didn’t expect the windows to be done since the guy who was placing the order
for them let slip that those can take a couple of weeks to be made ready (and
he was actually supposed to come measure them a few weeks ago, so I have a
feeling that my contractor wasn’t too pleased by that oversight.
I’m
a little concerned that I will not get the hoped for bath in my new tub
tomorrow night… hell, I’m a little worried that I may not have a toilet to use
when I get home!
I
know that they will have been working flat out all day today – possibly long
through the night, and will be doing more of the same tomorrow… but I’m still a
little worried at what stage things will be at when I get home.
Wish
me luck!
With
love across the waters…
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