here's some of the unsuspecting cabinets blissfully basking on the shiny floor, not knowing that they'd soon fall prey to a cordless drill, an allen key, and the dreaded fuller 313 screwdriver wielded by adam himself.
of course, not all the pieces were ready to submit to such torture. some even had to be further bedevilled by both adam and marc, who took a hole cutter and cordless drill to their helpless frames. let me tell you, those solid wood ikea countertops? yup, they're solid. yup, they're wood. and yup, they're hard to cut. marc actually scorched the cut edges with the saw. wowee.
meanwhile, magritte was busy wiggling away at her loose tooth.
said tooth finally departed from her mouth as we were all about to get on the peoplemover for a ride to comerica park, where we'd hoped to sit in the baking 33 degree heat on the bleachers and catch a detroit tigers game while sipping $8.50 budweiser and nibbling $6 hot dogs. alas, the game was actually some kind of big deal, and it was sold out. (on a tuesday? in june? in detroit? wow, things -have- changed around here.)
anyway, no game, so we and adam and audrey and their adorable kids went for a pleasantly air-conditioned dinner, where we were surrounded by TV screens playing, guess what, the tigers game.
the tigers lost.
but we won.
1 comment:
Looks as though you're all persevering through the trials and tribulations of assemblage and will be soon cheering about a distinct abundance of counter space! It's funny, but for some reason I never associate IKEA with the states. Sure we have it here in Canada, but I always just jump to Home Despot and Lowes when I think of the US. I don't know why. Just to amuse ourselfs, my mom and I often try to come up with humourous "IKEA-like" names for things. "Plink" or "Turbid" or "Gronk" come readily to mind. Love your account of how things are progressing. Great looking floors! Enjoy the heat there. Here we're lucky if we get up to 20 deg on a sunny day. Summer? Bleh.
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