Plans

Another very good reason for not getting too attached to plans is that they tend to change. Not unexpectedly, my weekend did not go quite like I thought it would go. I did get one book read and I did work some on my piles of paperwork. We did have family and friends over on Labor Day. But besides that, it held lots of unexpected activities (not that I didn't enjoy myself).

The first thing we did Saturday was drive to Issaquah to have the hinges installed on our kitchen cabinet doors. (What? you may say.) The story goes like this:

Many years ago we built our house. (And I mean that literally. We did have help here and there, but for the most part we did build it by ourselves.) We have friends who are cabinet makers. When we got to the kitchen, they generously offered to help us build our own kitchen and bathroom cabinets. So we did. The cabinets were built and transported to our new house. We installed them. The cabinets, not the doors or drawer fronts.

The cabinet doors and drawer fronts were purchased, but were unfinished (because we wanted to finish them ourselves). The project of finishing the doors and drawer fronts was way down on the list of things to do to finish the house. This is partly because the absence of cabinet doors and drawer fronts does not prevent you from using the kitchen cabinets. There were other things much higher on the list (like putting in doors on the bedrooms and bathrooms and finishing them).

Well those cabinet doors and drawer fronts finally made it to the top of the list. Mom has been working on finishing them for several weeks now, and she had the door fronts done so we could get the hinges installed (by the same generous friends who helped us build them to begin with) and hang the doors. We carefully loaded them into the trunk of my car, drove to Issaquah, had a fun time installing the hinges, (WOW! Having the right tools for the job makes a big difference!!!), and transported them home. Dad and I spent Saturday afternoon installing the doors. They look great! We spent part of Monday morning installing the bathroom cabinet drawer fronts. They look great too!

The rest of the weekend was spent cleaning-up for company and having company over. It was fun.