Monthly Archives: July 2007

Laminate flooring comes in five "feet" lengths.  The bedrooms are 3 "five" feet lengths, with around 18 board widths in one room and 22 board widths in the other.  So two bedrooms should take approximately 120 boards.  Then the closets can take partial pieces, probably around 10 per room. 

Total boards needed? Around 140 boards.  

8 boards per box with 18 boxes left — total number of boards144.   There is always a 10% error ratio (at least that is what we are told).  Can we skimp and make up two boxes along the way?  Or do you buy two more boxes?  Or are we thinking too much?

Such are the late night ponderings of the renovators!!

It’s hard to believe. 

She was once a baby, then a child, a teen, a mother and a wife.  And today she turns 21! 

Today we celebrate with you — Allison — my beloved daughter!!

A week or so ago we took down the doors to our kitchen cabinets in the basement.  In the midst of our renovations, this was a chance we took.  The kitchen would be a light beige and the cabinets doors a dark shade. 

Would this look good?  We had a sense it would.  The same colors were used in our upstairs.  We used them for feature walls.

Well, the cabinets look great.  The old handles were put back.  They were white.  Previously they didn’t match.  Now they actually complement the feel of the area. 

One set of doors were just slightly off kilter when we took them down.  We tried our best to readjust them.  After an hour or so, we got them working.  But there is still a slight slant we can’t quite adjust!

Which means, we will be open for guests in a few weeks (the floor is yet to be finished and the bedrooms painted).  If you are around, drop in and see what has been done.

OK, so he’s not that old — younger than me?  Following the resignation of the Dean, Dave Buschart and I served as co-deans at Canadian Theological Seminary for one year.  Our motto — "We will not just survive, we will thrive."  Well, we actually did survive!

Dave is now teaching at Denver Seminary.  He has written a book on the various streams of North American Protestantism — 8 altogether!  His thesis is that these varying streams can be hospitable to each other.  Sounds like a good read — I’ll have to pick up a copy.

Wrote him a quick email.  It will be interesting to see what he has been up to over the past 15  years or so!