Wednesday, July 12th and it's time for another update. Fernando worked all day Wednesday, July 5th, then had to drive back home, Danny said he would finish the tile work. Our problem was the plumber's were coming on Sunday to finish all the plumbing work so we needed the wall, behind the toilet, the floor and the shower floor finished and grouted. Saturday the four of us were going to Danny's parents house, in North Hollywood, for his sister's baby shower, so needless to say all the needed tile work had to be done by Friday night. Danny worked on it Thursday morning before work then worked again on it when he got home from work at about 8:30 pm, he worked till after midnight Kim said. Friday night Dave was going to help Danny but he wanted to do it himself. He did tile work and grouting and Kim helped him with the grout work. She told us on Saturday when we came over that her and Danny had worked until 2:00 in the morning, but they ended up doing a lot more work then they needed to for the plumbers. The work they did though looked great. We left to go to the shower, which Kim was helping host along with Danny's mom. Once we got there Dave and I took Kim's car and drove to Simi, had to drop off a bill for the new owners of our house plus go see our Jeweler, I had a bracelet to pick up. Talked to Lyle and Russ, new owners, for a while then when we were leaving John next door was home so we went by and saw all the construction work that is going on at his house. Would have liked to have more time to go see a bunch more people but had to get back to the party. We got back to Bakersfield at about 9:30 pm that night. The baby shower was fun except it was suppose to start at 3:30pm and people didn't really start showing up until 4:30/5:00 pm. Danny's sister said people always show up late, some were even showing up at 6 pm. The plumbers came Sunday morning finished most of the work, but some of the stuff they purchased was wrong to they will be back sometime during the week. Danny purchased a new doggie door so Dave and him decided to put it in, well, they couldn't get the sliding glass door out and they tried everything. Monday Dave started calling around to get someone to come out and give us an estimate on replacing it. After Dave would give the measurements on the door everyone said it would be a special order and the cost would be about $4,200.00. You see the glass and sliding door are about 15 feet wide. We were told it would be cheaper to take all the glass out and put in a solid wall with just an opening for a normal size sliding door. It would also cut down the heat that comes thru all that glass. Dave got on the phone again and went looking for a handyman to do the work. We did get a couple people to come out but they never called back with any estimates, we looked in the pennysaver and found someone that said he could do any kind of work so he came out. He gave us a price the same day and when none of the others called back we went with him. He was out yesterday with a friend and had the walls up and new sliding glass window in by the end of the day. He was back this morning and they finished taping and stuckoing the outside wall. We are now having him give us an estimate on finishing up all the baseboards and painting the whole house. He does great work and wasn't expensive either, the second thing that hasn't cost us a forture here, my car seats and the handyman.
Will write more later, bye for now