We are back home in Seattle after spending the last week in Salt Lake City, Utah visiting Gary's family and getting in some good skiing too! We were not expecting much to go on with the remodel as Ideal Building were taking a much deserved break during the Christmas and New Years Holidays.

However, Robert from Ideal Building did surprise us with news on Friday that they were able to have the asphalt for our new driveway poured. So we were happy to come home to a smooth driveway after several weeks without. I know, why would someone be excited about a 'driveway'? But after the weather that we have had and the mighty canyons that emerged in the dirt driveway from the hurricane like rain and wind these past few weeks - it was a welcome sight.

Some interesting news is that the plumber also made a return visit this past week to install the fixtures in the kitchen and bathroom. However (yeah there is another 'However'), the drains that were ordered are not long enough to fit through the 2" counters and vessel sinks in our bathroom. Additionally the faucet and hot water dispenser in the kitchen also do not extend all the way through the counter - so we are now considering our options on how to get this fixed.

The rest of the post is devoted to my sister's husband David. A while ago we went a few days without a post and that was due to mostly electrical work being done which do not make for exciting posts. However after talking to my sister yesterday, I realized that this is just the kind of stuff that David likes to see.

So without further adieu...

With the new garage, we had to move our external meter and the break box to the new East wall of the garage. To do this, the electrician installed a new breaker box in the garage near the window on the Eastside.

Then they strung wires across the top of the new garage to the existing breaker box left our existing breaker box in the existing partial wall that separates the old garage and the new.

So our existing breaker box is like a conduit and it made things a lot easier (and cheaper) than having to move everything over to the new box. But right now, the breaker box looks pretty bad. We are waiting for everything to be switched over to the new breaker (possibly this week).

Work will start back up on the house on Wednesday, January 3rd - so you probably won't see another post until then.

Happy New Year!!!