day 2 actually began with great conviviality on night 1 when Mom and Roland rolled into town. we had a marvelous time dining on fish and chips at the Crown and Goose as you can see here:
our assignments for the weekend were to order tile for the second bathroom floor and to buy paint for the entire house. if we could get some painting in, that would be bonus points.
our first stop on day 2 was Stover's Tile and Liquidation where we met Mike:
Mike was truly not the retiring sort but some folks just don't care for the camera... Stover's is rather inconveniently located so we had hoped to accomplish our mission in one trip (hear the merry peals of laughter from remodelling elves yet?) but 1 inch floor tile is just not that popular. turned out it was going to have to be shipped in as a special order, which often takes 10 days.
Mike just couldn't understand how two days overlap from move-in could be too close until i laid out The List in front of him, highlighting all the items that had to come after the floor. we came up with a compromise. i picked out four tile colors, two of which are shown here:
Mike agreed to personally call the central distributor and determine the relative shipping distances of the tile colors. i told him he could surprise me on final color as long as we had the shipment by day 8. Mike found that a pretty funny and semi-insane attitude for a homeowner embarking on such an epic remodel...
he just had no idea how hilarious. after we left Stovers, it was on to Sherwin-Williams where we met Matt:
who tried to help us pick paint. our first color choices were, shall we say, sour. homework, however, is homework and we are all teachers so we armed ourselves with study guides:
and by the end of day 3 we had the Audi loaded to the gills with paint and managed to even get our first ceiling painted (and carpet torn up):
we also managed a wonderful breakfast at the Round Up Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlor:
where we met the famous and famously sweet MaryLu:
with as many times as she was about to save my heiny (in one way or another), MaryLu really belongs in the A-Team and maybe should have gotten a medal, but that will come later...
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