Wow, a busy day

I spent the early part of the day trying to scrape the kitchen floor free of the paper left from the linoleum. I need to clear the paper so the framer can really see where the damage is on the floor. After an hour, I managed get about a 6"x6" area cleared. It was discouraging.

I spent the rest of the morning trying to find an architect to draw simple pictures of a window I want to enlarge. Even though a general contractor or framer could do it, the city is requiring architect drawings. It's really ridiculous, and a lot of the architects I talked to can't even believe it. Most of them won't touch something so small. After 11 calls, I found someone who wouldn't do the job because it was too small, but they have someone who used to work for them and is now on his own and handles small jobs. I called him and he sounded confident the job could be done quickly and easily without a large expense.

I took a breather to meet C for lunch, and headed off to a local home supply store to buy a belt sander to work on the kitchen floor. They didn't have an appropriate one in stock, so it was back to the home center store for the 4th time in 6 days. After that, I ran to a tile store to start picking samples. After that I headed to the art store to buy a board to mount all the samples I've collected so far together. It's a trick I've seen on HGTV (Home and Garden Television) and I think it will be easier to pick tile if the floor, cabinet, and counter material are all mounted on the board. My last stop of the day was the fabric store to buy sticky velcro to mount the samples. Then home at last. I'm tired!