Saturday, May 26, 2007

IT IS A HOLIDAY, LADY. WE DON'T WORK ON HOLIDAYS


We are living in a mess preparing for the installion of new carpet and a kitchen floor. When the shop scheduled the hardwood and carpet installation, the owner said they would begin on Monday, May 28. I came back with, "That's Memorial Day. Is your crew really working on the holiday?" She affirmed they were. They blocked off a whole week to do our work. When I reported this to Jon, he called back again questioning if they would indeed arrive on Memorial Day. Yup. Now, we don't mind if they work on the holiday, but were surprised they would.
Three days ago they called saying they would do the prep work (ripping out the old stuff) Saturday. We got busy packing bookshelves and harvesting a piece of the old carpet for Jon's workshop. Friday we moved all the furniture unto the area of bare floor so we would not be in their way when they came today. Today they called and said plans had changed. See you Tuesday am. Hmmm. Three days we wouldn't have had to live in chaos. Oh, well... Hopefully the rest will be done as scheduled. I am anxious to reassemble our house.

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