Another week and another trip to Madison as we continue to try to select items for our renovation project. We focused a lot on tiles this week and there are just too many tile options. Between trying to find a color you like along with a style and then compounding this with trying to decide what to use in each room along with what to do in the bathrooms for tile insets and what should be used as backsplashes in the kitchen and do you want to do the same thing in each room or change it up room by room or floor by floor and what should the pottery space have in it so that it is easy to clean and oh make sure it all these choices work with the countertops, flooring, and cabinet colors. Well, you get the idea that we were a bit overwhelmed on Friday. But we are making progress as we are about 90-95% of the way there on our kitchen layout and cabinet choice. Tiles - still a work in progress.
After that fun, we joined John and Linda at the Memorial Union to imbibe just enough to relax and then a bit more. They had brought their boat up to Madison in John's ongoing quest to boat every lake in Wisconsin (just googled that - 15, 074 documented lakes in Wisconsin, so he has a few to go). We enjoyed a pitcher of beer while enjoying the ambience of the Terrace at the Union and the views of the lake, before getting on their boat for a short tour of Lake Mendota. Afterwards we enjoyed burgers and sandwiches at DLUX downtown before ushering them into our construction zone. Fortunately, they were troopers about the state of the condo and the fact that there aren't actually any real beds in our unit - only air mattresses (we take the AirBnB message seriously).
Saturday morning dawned sunny and cool; perfect weather for a stroll around the Farmer's market where we picked up some fresh peaches, apple cider, and a few breakfast treats. After getting our calories we headed to Skipper Bud's marina to pick up the boat for a day on the lake. We cruised around the entire circumference of Lake Mendota seeing Madison really for the first time from that view (we had rented a canoe about 20-25 years ago with Kathy, but only covered a small portion by the University). It provided a new perspective and, as you might imagine, there are some spectacular lake houses on the lake to enjoy. After another brief stop at the Terrace for some Babcock Hall ice cream and to meet friends of John and Linda, we braved the Yahara River lock to cruise around Lake Monona (remember John's lake quest), before moving back up river to Mendota and packing up the boat for the trip home.
We decided to drive home late Saturday night and enjoyed a bike ride early Sunday morning before putting up another two batches of pickles (that is nine batches so far this year - and even though the cucumber plants are quitting any time soon, we think we have had it on pickles) and catching up on things around the house.
Another week and another trip to Madison as we continue to try to select items for our renovation project. We focused a lot on tiles this week and there are just too many tile options. Between trying to find a color you like along with a style and then compounding this with trying to decide what to use in each room along with what to do in the bathrooms for tile insets and what should be used as backsplashes in the kitchen and do you want to do the same thing in each room or change it up room by room or floor by floor and what should the pottery space have in it so that it is easy to clean and oh make sure it all these choices work with the countertops, flooring, and cabinet colors. Well, you get the idea that we were a bit overwhelmed on Friday. But we are making progress as we are about 90-95% of the way there on our kitchen layout and cabinet choice. Tiles - still a work in progress.
After that fun, we joined John and Linda at the Memorial Union to imbibe just enough to relax and then a bit more. They had brought their boat up to Madison in John's ongoing quest to boat every lake in Wisconsin (just googled that - 15, 074 documented lakes in Wisconsin, so he has a few to go). We enjoyed a pitcher of beer while enjoying the ambience of the Terrace at the Union and the views of the lake, before getting on their boat for a short tour of Lake Mendota. Afterwards we enjoyed burgers and sandwiches at DLUX downtown before ushering them into our construction zone. Fortunately, they were troopers about the state of the condo and the fact that there aren't actually any real beds in our unit - only air mattresses (we take the AirBnB message seriously).
We decided to drive home late Saturday night and enjoyed a bike ride early Sunday morning before putting up another two batches of pickles (that is nine batches so far this year - and even though the cucumber plants are quitting any time soon, we think we have had it on pickles) and catching up on things around the house.
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