I probably should title this post “Part 5 1/2” - it’s not really a full update on our ongoing renovation project.

As I suppose is fairly common in such undertakings, we’ve met with a couple snares. First, two of the three carpets we’ve selected are going to take around eight weeks to mill, far longer than we’d anticipated. Ouch!

And second, the painters have discovered that the paint isn’t sticking properly due, they suspect, to the former owner’s having improperly applied the original color. They’ll try resealing the affected walls today and then reapplying the new paint next week. We have our fingers crossed.

Dawn and I are still living in the upstairs guest bedroom, eating out a lot and unhappilty boarding our cats (except on weekends.) We know these things take time, and everyone is working hard, but we’ll be glad when it’s all over and we can resume our normal routines.

Meanwhile, Dawn snapped this image of Georgie, our silver shaded, straight-eared Scottish Fold cat, as he cautiously checked out some of the contractors’  tools and supplies the other day. He’ll be glad when things return to normal, too.