MidDay Post

I thought I would do a lunch time post since I can almost bet that nothing is going to happen the rest of today.

The day did not start out like this though,no,no there was hope in the air.There was hope of a foundation being built today when the brick layer showed up here a 7:30am.The situation was looking really good.

They(brick layer and helper) got in the hole,moved some bricks around so the had some space to work.They set up the cement mixing machine,asked me to turn on the water and.................

That was it!!!!

They stood around after that waiting for who knows what?? They decided to leave around 8:40am and  I have not seen them since.

I thought maybe they might be back later this morning only because a truck from Cambrian Metal showed up about 10 minutes after they left.

I figured ahhh......that's what they were waiting for.

It wasn't!

All he was doing was dropping off a support beam for the addition.Fat chance of them using that anytime soon!!Our contractor did show up to help the driver unload the beam and then he also took off and I haven't seen him again either.Probably went to work on his other job.

This concludes yet another frustrating day on the home construction front.Unless they come back this afternoon, which I seriously doubt,today to me looks like another write off.

I look outside and find it hard to believe that this whole construction started almost a month ago.To me it looks like it started last week.We have baby coming in 5 weeks and I need to get the inside of the house done before my wife returns with our two sons near the end of August.I really just do not see this happening.I would hate to have them come back to a mess with the inside of the house not ready, but it looks like this may be the case.

The floors need to be done in all the bedrooms,bathrooms and the kitchen.The inside needs to be painted.New drywall needs to be put in the existing living room.The doors need to be changed on the existing bedrooms and bathroom.Not to mention all the little things that I can't think of right now.All this needs to be done and ready for the end of August.So with these guys only spending about 2 days a week here there is absolutely no way this is getting done when we need it to get done. 

My only hope right now is that maybe they can somehow prove me wrong!