The weekend is about over and Gary and I were so busy we missed our annual trip to the Car Show here in Seattle. We usually go to look at cars that we want to buy or in Gary's case to hang out in the Hummer display to talk H2 with other guys. In fact, it was at one of these past shows when I fell in love with the Chevrolet Avalanche. I still regret trading the avalanche in for the Equinox, but I keep telling myself it was for the best as the Equinox gets better mileage... but I digress.

On Saturday, Pete Last with Inside Cable and Connection stopped by to work on all the wiring for our telephone and cable needs with the new kitchen and our TV room. Since we are planning on upgrading the TV room with a flat panel 50" HDTV, and we want a tv in the kitchen - we had Pete come in and run new wires to the new areas. What we discovered while Pete was up in the attic above the garage and breezeway was that when the electricians were up there, they must have put a hand or knee against the ceiling and punched out an old patch in our laundry room. We didn't notice it until Saturday when we were working with Pete. So more repair work will need to be done.

Pete is great! Gary and I cannot remember how we found him, but we first worked with him when we remodeled Gary's office in the house. To accommodate all of Gary's phone and technology needs Pete ran a bunch of new wiring in the room. It has been GREAT. He is VERY fast and pays a lot of attention to detail - we will use him again, when we wire the HDTV, BOSE Lifestyle 48 and surround speakers in our TV room after the remodel is done.

After Pete left, Gary and I hoped on the motorcycles and rode up to Frank's Lumber and Door Store in Shoreline to pick out, what else, a new front door. The funny thing is that before we even walked into the front door - Gary saw the door we would eventually buy. This door is made from Oak and was in the front window. We forced ourselves to look around, but we kept coming back to this one door The picture here is similar but not exactly the door we are getting. We have a single window at the top and the glass has an etched mountain scene in it. It fits us and the house perfectly.

This morning I woke up around 7:30am (new time), changed the clocks before Gary woke up. We did some work around the house and then headed out to Half Price Books to get rid of 4 banker boxes of VHS and DVD movies. We are cleaning house as we hope to downsize considerably after the remodel. On the way home we stopped by Lowe's and looked at Shower doo-dads. After looking around, we decided that we will go with the fixtures that we originally picked out at Best Plumbing. But we did pick put some alternate paint options for the kitchen/tv room and two possible stains for the hardwoods. So we left there, picked up some boxes at U-haul and stopped off at QFC for our weekly shopping.

After packing up the DVD's and VHS tapes that we are keeping - we painted a portion of the hardwoods in the kitchen with the two stain choices to see what we liked better. The two colors are Mocha Brown and Dark Ebony. We compared those with our two tile choices, cabinet swatch and paint chips. Now we need to make a decision on which stain we like best.