Black Rhombus

So I finally got around to editing, resizing and posting a bunch of long overdue photos.

1. Our recent vacation to camp in Catskill Park, visit Drew & Janet in Cape Cod and then a visit to Darren, Cara and Aidan in Pennsylvania.  Click HERE.

2. Rivah House Weekend 2008. Click HERE.

3. Our trip to New Orleans for Dawn & Brian’s Wedding. Click HERE.

This whole process took me a good 5hrs, so I plan on keeping more on top of this from now on!

We’ve been going back & forth on options for finishing off our laundry room floor for so long, I wasn’t sure that the job would ever get done.  We bought ~$300 worth of tile from Lowes, & subsequently returned it.  You should have seen my car on the way back from Lowes.  Rebecca was driving & she said the car was fish-tailing…. whlie driving straight.  Definitely not a good idea in hindsight.

We knew the slab wasn’t all that even to begin with, so we started to use the mortar (moh-tar?) to try to even out the divits, but quickly realized it was turning into more of a job than anticipated.  So, we asked Pete to take a look & give us his thoughts.  He confirmed that using tile on that surface would have been a problem, so I took the tile back… in several car-loads this time.  Heh.

Soooooo… we finally ended up back at our original plan: self-leveling concrete.  We were initially freaked out by this stuff because it sets up so fast that you really have to move quickly, & have a good idea of what you’re doing.  Well, after I dunno how many weeks of research, I think we’d figured it out.  We used Laticrete self-leveling underlay, & Quickcrete concrete stain + top-coat to finish it off.  It looks really good, & we’re very happy with the result.

We also finally got our new washer & dryer!  Thanks Cyril & Mary!

Full gallery of photos is here.

Poor ol’ Quinne got a bit to close to the maw of Aiko’s jaws last Friday.  We had to take her in to the Vet Saturday afternoon, & it’s apparently a good thing we did.  We weren’t sure how bad the cut was at first, but we knew it looked pretty deep.  Thankfully, it missed important stuff.  Like sinuses.

They’re playing regularly, & this was definitely one of those times; she just had her big ol’ snout in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Oops.  Recovering well, though, & she doesn’t even seem to mind the bonnet all that much.  You can see another photo (closeup) in the gallery here.