Floor update

 2 weeks have gone by and we are still waiting for the final coat of poly to be put on the floors. Matt did finally respond to our texts on Friday to say that he would have Chris come and do the final coat.  We declined, said that we wanted him, the guy with 20yrs experience, to finish the job.  He again got a little pissy and said we'd have to wait until this week for him to be able to do it.  Fine. It's Monday and of course we've had no word from him on what day he thinks he might grace us with his presence. Oh well.

 In the meantime, Steve is doing a few repairs to the floors that we decided we could handle....boards along the living room wall that were patched 40 years ago with particle board because the original owners put down carpet over them....in other words, do a crappy job because no one can see it. Ours isn't going to be much better because the wood strip we are using will be set in horizontal to the boards on the floor...but it will also be sort of covered by bookcases....so we're trying to be ok with it.  The only other option would've been to tear out about 25 boards and feather in new ones.  That seemed excessive...and expensive. We may end up regretting that decision.