Soccer: Played the same team as Saturday and battled to a 4-4 tie. Really good game, a lot of back and forth play, very enjoyable. Both boys played well, Christopher had a good chance in the 2nd quarter, and Matthew buried a penalty kick in the first (the ref called a lot of this today, which, I think is good and bad. She called it, obviously, when the kids reached up in the box to stop the ball, but, on one of the other team's free kicks, the ball was coming right at Matthew's head, and he raised up his arms to block it from smacking him in the head, and she called that too. Technically, she's right, but, with 6-7 years old, in the outdoor soccer rules, you don't whistle the ones where they are defending themselves.....who am I kidding, I'm just griping because it cost us a goal!).
Three videos are here, you can find Matthew's goal about 40 seconds into the 1st quarter.
Kitchen: Still moving forward. Had the counter guys come out for the measure today. Very interesting to see how they do it, makes perfect sense once you see it, but, don't know if I would have thought they would have done it that way beforehand. They laid out styrofoam strips where the edges of the counter would be, glued them in place on the cabinet tops, glued the strips to each other, and then cut them apart to transport back to the shop for reassembly and fabrications. They ended up taking our sink and faucet too, just to make sure they have it right. Sounds like we might have the countertop in 2 weeks.....hopefully that's on target!
In this picture, you can see how far we plan on having the overhang go towards the sliding glass doors...all the way to the trim (the foam piece that's running parallel to the cabinets).
We're going to end up with two seams; both where the right angles occur on each side of the sink.
Oh...the boys (and the cats) have had an unbelievably good time with the sink box. You'll note the Pokemon handbook is really popular right now.
Basement: Construction is in full swing....drywall is scheduled for early next week. But, the walls for the bedroom are framed in. They need to frame in around the pipe and along the walls where the concrete is exposed, and also cut into the wall near the storage room for the closet opening. It's not really going to end up being a closet, we're going to be putting an Ikea storage unit in there.
