Got up this morning and the phone rang, the microwave installer would come with the new microwave and install it between 2 and 6 PM.
The blinds consultant lady was to come between 3 and 4 PM. As luck would have it, they both arrived at the front gate together, and Lary went up there to let them in.
We kind of ignored the poor microwave installer, who was done in about 15 - 20 minutes, as the blinds lady had lots of suggestions for us, and plenty of ideas and helpful thoughts.
We ended up ordering mini blinds for the bedroom as we already have some there, and we ordered verticals for our living room/dining room/kitchen area. They will be installed after our painting is all done, which gives them a chance to get them made, and the painter to do his thing without dealing with the blinds. Lary and I will remove the 2 layers of curtains before the painter starts to paint, and the blinds installers will remove the hardware from the curtains.
We decided to get verticals with a bit of a texture, a beige texture.
Meanwhile the weather is quite violent, teeming rain, and lots of closures on the roads throughout the Coachella Valley. We stayed in today, and I don't know what we will do tomorrow.
Lary goes to carve tomorrow, but that's just down the road, a couple of blocks from here, and Wendy and I decided to do something together, but due to the weather I don't know what we'll opt to do.
Having made the decorating commitment about the blinds, it is exciting to think about paint colors, we looked at some with the blinds consultant, she used to do paint colors and has some very good ideas. We don't want to do a paint with any grey in it, we don't want stark white either, but perhaps an off white with a touch of beige in it, would be good. We will leave the valances in place but they will be painted and included in the new paint color. She called them cornices.
That was our whole day, we didn't go out today, just listened to the rain pour down.
Forgot to say that our internet is finally attached and installed completely with Time Warner, Lary had to use a different cable called an Ethernet cable from the modem to the computer due to our operating system being Windows 7, so that was the problem. As soon as he found out that and used the correct cable, voila, we had smoking hot internet. What a relief after years of intermittent coverage in the various parks where we have camped.
About Me
- Di and Lary
- Di and Lary are both retired, Lary was in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Air Navigator, 32 years, and Di did many things, but the most fulfilling was teaching, for 3 years on an Indian Reserve in Central BC and later 7 years teaching ESL, both in Canada and in Europe, in Spain and later Germany.