I've been slacking lately. SO here comes one of those mish-mash posts that has a little of everything in it. First off, here's a picture of Bonnie's dogs!
Cassie is on the pillow. Gus is on Cassie. She sure does love those dogs.
People have been asking about the condition of the house. I am sad to say that while the house is liveable, the work is not yet done. Hey! I found a theme for this post (you'll see).
Work finished drying the place and replacing the drywall about a week ago and we moved back into the place. The drywall still needed some sanding and the workmen chose to sand and re-mud the same places over the course of FIVE DAYS. They came in for about an hour each time. Fail. Then they finally painted it and said they were done and, guess what, that place they sanded for the last 5 days was completely rough. Not only that, but the paint job was terribly sloppy.
Some highlights of the job include:
-broken razors on the floor
-nails on the floor
-socket covers put on the wall even though they were broken
-drywall dust left everywhere instead of being vaccuumed
-paint on the baseboards
-paint not on the wall above the baseboards
-paint over top of unsanded mud (or the worst sanding job ever)
That about sums it up! Glad I'm not paying for those guys. So, I dutifully told the landlord and a few days later he had a friend come in and fix the sanding/mudding at least. So then we had a splotchy wall, but at least it was smooth. Then today the original guy came back and said he was going to finish the painting. So what did he do? He started sanding again. But hey, guess what? This time he took his shoes off and brought a shop vac with him. I haven't seen the finished product yet - i'm not optimistic
To continue with the epic saga (why does minor issue in my life turn into an epic saga?), the carpet people said that unless they wanted to work on Fridays or weekends (god forbid!) they wouldn't come in until October 4th. So we're living on concrete floor nails sticking up around the edges of the room! But have no fear! I have remedied the situation by putting bedsheets and towels down around the place so we have "Carpet" for now and the place is surprisingly livable. Took some pics of the height of the disaster:
It no longer looks like that. Don't worry :p I organized the whole place in exchange for the meals bonnie is cooking.
In other construction news, the "Banff Refreshing" is done!! It's the construction that they're doing on the main street that I've posted a few pictures of.
Wait.
It was supposed to be done. In fact, it's far from done. About 1/2 the sidewalk still needs doing, and the entire road surface, and the landscaping, and the detail work. Hrm....(see the theme now?) These workers are SSOOOOO great. There's been a couple mornings where it took serious acrobatics to get into the store (including one morning where i couldn't even figure out how to go about getting to the door in the first place). The other morning I couldn't even open the door because of the barricades in front of it. Here's a shot of one particularly accessible night
It's supposed to snow tonight. That'll speed up these guys. I've got a friend who says "In Toronto they would have laid and begun operating a subway in the time it's taken them to repave the road".
Finally, this weekend was the "last hurrah" for summer and tourists in this town until Thanksgiving (after which the town practically closes until Christmas). It was Melissa's (a restuarant/bar) Road Race!!!
WTF? How is that special?
I don't know!!
Anyway it's a HUGE event. 22km marathon (1/2 marathon?) around town and what not. I asked and this year there were 4,500 participants. HOly hell! What's the prize? NOTHING! What's the cause? NOTHING!
Ok. That's a lie. It's meant to be "the greatest road race in Canada" in that it's fun and open to everybody at no charge. It's just surprising that so many people show up for it. So some pictures of it that i took on my way to work
Finally a new Christmas wish in my ongoing effort to stave off the perpetual "What do you want for Christmas? You're SSSOOOO hard to buy for" comments that get thrown my way.
Get together out there and get Bonnie and I a nice high-definition TV. Nothing too big or fancy (we have a small place). We've got both Best Buy and Future Shop out here so we have full access to all the TVs you have access to.
Also, make your plans to come out for ski trips. Really! We want LOTS of ski trips this winter. I'd say "rooms are going fast" but...they aren't. UNless you mean the hotels in town. If you mean them, then they may in fact be, depending on when you'd want to come out.
Cassie is on the pillow. Gus is on Cassie. She sure does love those dogs.
People have been asking about the condition of the house. I am sad to say that while the house is liveable, the work is not yet done. Hey! I found a theme for this post (you'll see).
Work finished drying the place and replacing the drywall about a week ago and we moved back into the place. The drywall still needed some sanding and the workmen chose to sand and re-mud the same places over the course of FIVE DAYS. They came in for about an hour each time. Fail. Then they finally painted it and said they were done and, guess what, that place they sanded for the last 5 days was completely rough. Not only that, but the paint job was terribly sloppy.
Some highlights of the job include:
-broken razors on the floor
-nails on the floor
-socket covers put on the wall even though they were broken
-drywall dust left everywhere instead of being vaccuumed
-paint on the baseboards
-paint not on the wall above the baseboards
-paint over top of unsanded mud (or the worst sanding job ever)
That about sums it up! Glad I'm not paying for those guys. So, I dutifully told the landlord and a few days later he had a friend come in and fix the sanding/mudding at least. So then we had a splotchy wall, but at least it was smooth. Then today the original guy came back and said he was going to finish the painting. So what did he do? He started sanding again. But hey, guess what? This time he took his shoes off and brought a shop vac with him. I haven't seen the finished product yet - i'm not optimistic
To continue with the epic saga (why does minor issue in my life turn into an epic saga?), the carpet people said that unless they wanted to work on Fridays or weekends (god forbid!) they wouldn't come in until October 4th. So we're living on concrete floor nails sticking up around the edges of the room! But have no fear! I have remedied the situation by putting bedsheets and towels down around the place so we have "Carpet" for now and the place is surprisingly livable. Took some pics of the height of the disaster:
It no longer looks like that. Don't worry :p I organized the whole place in exchange for the meals bonnie is cooking.
In other construction news, the "Banff Refreshing" is done!! It's the construction that they're doing on the main street that I've posted a few pictures of.
Wait.
It was supposed to be done. In fact, it's far from done. About 1/2 the sidewalk still needs doing, and the entire road surface, and the landscaping, and the detail work. Hrm....(see the theme now?) These workers are SSOOOOO great. There's been a couple mornings where it took serious acrobatics to get into the store (including one morning where i couldn't even figure out how to go about getting to the door in the first place). The other morning I couldn't even open the door because of the barricades in front of it. Here's a shot of one particularly accessible night
It's supposed to snow tonight. That'll speed up these guys. I've got a friend who says "In Toronto they would have laid and begun operating a subway in the time it's taken them to repave the road".
Finally, this weekend was the "last hurrah" for summer and tourists in this town until Thanksgiving (after which the town practically closes until Christmas). It was Melissa's (a restuarant/bar) Road Race!!!
WTF? How is that special?
I don't know!!
Anyway it's a HUGE event. 22km marathon (1/2 marathon?) around town and what not. I asked and this year there were 4,500 participants. HOly hell! What's the prize? NOTHING! What's the cause? NOTHING!
Ok. That's a lie. It's meant to be "the greatest road race in Canada" in that it's fun and open to everybody at no charge. It's just surprising that so many people show up for it. So some pictures of it that i took on my way to work
Finally a new Christmas wish in my ongoing effort to stave off the perpetual "What do you want for Christmas? You're SSSOOOO hard to buy for" comments that get thrown my way.
Get together out there and get Bonnie and I a nice high-definition TV. Nothing too big or fancy (we have a small place). We've got both Best Buy and Future Shop out here so we have full access to all the TVs you have access to.
Also, make your plans to come out for ski trips. Really! We want LOTS of ski trips this winter. I'd say "rooms are going fast" but...they aren't. UNless you mean the hotels in town. If you mean them, then they may in fact be, depending on when you'd want to come out.
posted by Anonymous at 10:07 PM
2 Comments:
i love the pic of all the porta-potties for that damned race. do you have any idea how long it took me to get out of town? if i thought that people move slowly to take pictures out of their cars of elk, i obviously hadn't seen people move slowly to take pictures out of their cars of other people. bizarre.
very nice theme, noah. you forgot to mention all the other construction in my life, though...
Wow, you'd make a horrible travel agent for Banff. It really doesn't look very hospitable. Let me know when it's done. So how about some pictures of how you are living now? It looks like porta-potty heaven out there.
love
mom
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