How come "day 1" has so little installed? Why not continue to the perpendicular wall and finish behind it on day 2. BTW, have you installed hardwood before? Do you know what you will do to keep warped boards together while the glue dries? (Heck, I'm not even sure what to do. I did only one glue down and we did a combo of laying boxes on the flooring and bracing against the opposite walls, etc)

I've been with the same doc for almost 18 years and I would hate to have to switch to another. If I call last minute, either he squeezes me in, or I see his partner who is equally great. I worked for a multi doc practice for a few years and I was disgusted at some of what I saw. It was all about the money with them. None of these docs would "go the extra mile" for the patients. There was no come into my office today, I'll see you tomorrow, etc. This company had a contract with a walk in clinic down the street and the knee jerk reaction of all the receptionists and doctors was " go to the clinic." This clinic was very busy and between the emergencies was alot of primary care things...med refills that could have been done over the phone, routine bloodwork,blood pressure checks, etc. One doc actually had the gall to send a patient that was in his office to the clinic to be evaluated for abdominal pain! His excuse...I'm too busy today to order the bloodwork and xrays! Then if a patient was severe enough that they had to go to the ER, the pcp would call and yell at the clinic docs because they would have to round on the patient at the local hospital! It was a real eye opener. Alot of the patients would say that they felt the clinic docs were their pcps. In 18 years, my doc had given me 1 outside referral and that was for surgery. Sorry for the rant but I was happy to get out of that job and am forever grateful to my doc for the wonderful job that he does.

While we've only been in the house a little over 3 months, I'm very happy with ours. Our floors are 90/10 Red/White oak milled in 3-5" all cut from our property and milled/kiln dried locally. My only regret is taking them to a processor that doesn't end match. We did get a little bit of gaps during the winter, but not as bad as expected, and frankly, I like the natural imperfections. Ours were site finished, and we opted for a water based finish as we didn't want the strong red/pinks you get from the red oak with an oil based finished. This makes cleaning a little more specific in what types of cleaning solutions you use, but not a big deal to us. Here's what it looked like after if was finished:

I'm happy with my Whirlpool Duet front loader. I researched here a lot before purchasing it around 2009 and have had no problems in those 13 years. It was designed and made in Germany, is built like a tank, and has a water heater. With the drought we have here in CA, it would pain me to use 26 gallons of water for a load of laundry. Water itself doesn't clean, it just allows soils removed by detergent and agitation to be rinsed away. I love that I can wash my king size bedding, including duvet cover, along with a queen set, and never have an unbalanced load like I did all the time with my old TL. I also wash my huge king-size down comforter every few years with no problems at all. (Drying it is the much bigger chore.) Also, I love using the water heater to sanitize bedding for that super-fresh smell and feel. The only things I would change about my washer would be to have more control over the water temp, time, and speed. The cycles of my machine have energy-saving limits that at the time made it eligible for some big subsidies. So the Normal cycle "Hot" setting mixes in some cold water, making it barely warm. (I have measured it with my Thermoworks and talked with Whirlpool CS.) I'm a big believer in the power of heat to clean oily soils and reduce/kill germs and dust mites, so I never use cold washes or even warm unless the fiber is super-delicate to heat, like cashmere or silk. I like to get fabrics clean with heat and time, and keep the agitation as gentle as possible, but the cycles on my washer combine high heat with fast agitation. I use some workarounds (mostly the Bulky cycle), but would love to be able to set temp, time, and agitation speed manually. But all my fabrics get just as clean as they did with my old top loader. Cleaner, when using the heater cycles, for sure. Our LG gas dryer is fine, though we have repaired it maybe 4 times, and it needs another repair right now. I don't think there is anything bad about LG in particular, but probably the super-high capacity of both the washer and dryer make for some very heavy loads that wear out the belts and drum rollers faster. Dryers are pretty simple machines, and they all seem pretty much alike to me. If someone could make a dryer with a lint filter that catches ALL the lint and doesn't let ANY of it get into the duct, I would buy it. I used to dislike the chore of doing laundry, until I read the history of laundry in the book Home Comforts (recommended here), about wealthy Europeans shipping their laundry to the Caribbean, and less wealthy trying to wash fabrics in cold rivers in the winter. Now, I think about the awesomeness of ANY laundry appliance every time I use them, with gratitude.