Sticky Shelves

The missing bench arrived yesterday via UPS.  Haven't seen a credit for the 'return' so guess they figured it out - perhaps the lady in Wisconsin and I ordered the same bench and mine went to her and hers went to me?  Maybe she was in the same boat seeing her bench traveling across the country nowhere near Wisconsin for the first couple days and then it arrived 'early' for her.  J. put it together and it's a really pretty bench.  Pics soon.  (Waiting for the 'full effect' of yard completed and ready for it's pictorial debut).  It's really beautiful and we are very happy with how it's turning out.

The punch list guy Logan has been here off and on a few times this past week.  He is getting done with all the little stuff and it's nice to not have small pieces of blue tape everywhere.  He's got a great work ethic, great people skills and is such a nice young man.  

One of the issues we're having are sticky shelves.  As we were going through the list, we ventured into my walk in closet - which was hard because I'd moved a ton of stuff in there to make my room more accessible.  I couldn't move something on the shelf - a wood jewelry organizer that I had placed on the shelf - and he realized that the sticky shelf issue wasn't just the pantry.  No, it is every single shelf in every single closet throughout the house.  It's a lot of shelves. 

He talked to the job sup (Ryan) and they said they could have the shelves redone - or we could just use shelf liner.  I think up until he witnessed the issue in a bedroom closet they were hoping we'd just say 'we'll just line the shelves in the pantry - no biggie'.  But no.  I'm not saying that.  This is a custom built home and we paid a lot for it.  Worth every penny, blessed we could afford it, thankful it is ours - but having shelf issues here for the rest of forever is likely not going to be OK with me.  This type of 'issue' is a thing that will have me ruminating nightly for decades at 3AM - and I shouldn't set myself up for that.  It messes with the 'joy' of this house - having an issue that was created by a lack of attention to detail - be something we decide to 'live with' for years.  

So we notified Logan to notify the builder that we want every shelf in every closet in every room of the house redone.  Sanded, cleaned and painted again with fresh paint.  We will also be notifying the builder that we will expect them to pay for labor to assist us in emptying everything out of every closet and the pantry and putting it back post re-paint.  We shouldn't have to do all this again - 

I dread the work crews here for the next few weeks.  Dread the dust, the noise, the smell, people in and out constantly.  I was so ready - once the punch list items were done and the landscaping was finished - to feel like 'now it's ours.  No more work crew.  Time to prepare for dark Winter and make it home'.  But no.  We'll be prepping for dark Winter while moving a ton of stuff in and out of closets throughout the house.  Argh!

Before the landscapers leave for the day today, they are going to put down the labyrinth template and J. and I are going to try to start working on it.  We think we can manage to do some of the stonework ourselves over the weekend.  To say the lead landscaper (Manuel) is skeptical about this plan would be an understatement.  We're hoping when he arrives on Monday, we can (at least) have each space on the labyrinth template 'coded' with what stone goes where - and maybe have started placing the stones where they go.  We have decided to use a smaller stone for the 2nd fill-in (not the colored stone we're using throughout the rest of the landscape) and that will be delivered sometime on Monday.  

J. went out last night and dug a hole and we put Dani and Chloe's cremains in.  They are pretty much (roughly) in the center of the labyrinth and I will probably get a small plaque to put on the fence nearby in their memory.  Sweetest dogs ever and we miss them.  

Sounds like the landscapers think they'll finish up by Wednesday next week.  And J. has a procedure to place 'pellets' in his prostate on Wednesday as well - another 'holy crap, he's taking Xanax again' day.  

The amount of binge watching on Netflix occurring these days may be a problem.  I'm even watching 'dubbed' Swedish, Finnish and a host of other 'other language' based series.  There is just SO MUCH content out there -