1) first item that gave us some angst beforehand was our plans to move the dishwasher about 2 feet to the left (as you are looking at it). We know, because we could hear it, that there's a pipe running from the dishwasher to the sink, and, we were really hoping that there would be a lot of pipe, or, enough of it accessible, to patch in an extension. Same deal with the electrical line.
Turns out we were completely wrong on both counts. The water, the drain, and the electric all come up through the floor, and conveniently, come up from the floor on the left edge of the dishwasher. There's plenty of slack, so, moving the dishwasher to where we want it to be was just a simple matter of sliding it over into place.
2) the second angst-y part was the hardwood floors.....would we have to cut away part of them to fit the cabinets in there? Turns out we did have to cut away about 1/2" in one place to get the legs for one cabinet to sit on the subfloor, but, again, that worked out much better than I could have hoped.
3) The sink, and the water connections, were the third big concern. Could we get the sink off easily? Could we deal with the connections, or, were we going to need to call reinforcements (the plumber)?
Turned off the shutoff valve for the cold water...ended up busting off the shutoff valve for the hot water while trying to shut that off, so, turned that off at the source. Disconnecting the sink from the piping was very easy. Had to go to the store to buy a new shutoff valve, but, finally got that installed.
4) The next key step was seeing if we could get the new sink cabinet in place....this involved drilling holes in the bottom of the cabinet and the back of the cabinet for the pipes to stick through. Don't ask me why, but, this has always been a task I've been horrible at, always, without fail, I never get the things to match up, and, today was no exception and I had to go back and make the holes bigger. Had to cut the two water pipes (hot and cold) and the reconnect them with a connection valve to do this.....this was mostly successful (I still need to tighten the valves a little more) and has led Suzanne to realize that the big stop sign that's hindered bathroom remodeling plans (dealing with the supply pipes) is now gone.
Weekend Sports:
Christopher Soccer: Another frustrating loss....totally dominated the second half and only had one goal to score for it (the ball never came past the midfield line) and gave up three or four easy goals in the first half. Christopher had a goal disallowed in what I'm sure will be the first of many similar type events. Christopher is running down the field heading towards the goal, there's a defensive guy on him, a ref behind them watching (very close), and a ref on the other side of the field watching as well. The defensive guy falls down, and the ref on the other side of the field blows the play dead, and the ref behind Christopher and the defender clearly doesn't agree with it (Christopher, a second before the whistle blew, had kicked the ball and it went in). Goal disallowed, play moves on. I ask at the end of the quarter what happened, and it goes something like this
Ref one (who was behind them): Well, the defender was pushing up against your guy as they went down the field...almost the whole way....
Ref two (who blew the whistle): And finally, your guy pushed back a little, trying to get him off of him
Ref one: and because your guy is so big, the pushing of the defender didn't really bother him enough to call the foul, and I wasn't going to call the little push back because the defender had been pushing up against him the whole time
Ref two: But all I saw was the big kid push and the little kid go down....and I blew the whistle...
Matthew Flag Football: A banner day for the big guy; 2 touchdowns and an interception (on change of possessions, you can't advance, so, when you see the film, that's why they are blowing the play dead). Matthew's the yellow team this week.
Matthew Soccer: Showed up in time for the fourth quarter (today was the last flag football conflict) and Matthew did what Matthew does....
