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  "description": "Dining room floors installed, and a trip to see the Enterprise and a Shuttlecraft",
  "path": "/posts/renovation2016/renovation-week-25-leaving-ground",
  "publishedAt": "2016-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
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    "renovation"
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  "textContent": "New floors and a few trips to escape the work zone.\n\n\n\nOn Monday, the floor contractors returned to put down hickory in the dining room to match what was installed in the kitchen, and to repair the messed-up parquet that's in the family room.\n\n<br />\nFloor installation in progress\n{ .img-caption }\n\n<br />\nFloor installation complete\n{ .img-caption }\n\nThis was the noisiest that things have been in the house in a long time. They returned Tuesday to stain and finish the floors, so we all cleared out completely, since they were also refinishing the stairs that lead upstairs, so being in the house would have meant being trapped wherever you were for the entire day.\n\nKeenan and I escaped into Manhattan for the day, where we spent most of the afternoon at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. The big attraction there is the Space Shuttle Enterprise:\n\n<br />\nSpace Shuttle Enterprise\n{ .img-caption }\n\n...and we also learned that they have a second shuttle there.\n\n<br />\nSecond shuttle\n{ .img-caption }\n\nNeither of these have actually been in space.\n\nThe house smelled of stain and polyurethane for a few days, but it all looks fantastic:\n\n<br />\nFinished floors\n{ .img-caption }\n\n<br />\nPhoto display handmade by Kathy\n{ .img-caption }\n\nI vanished on Friday and Saturday back to my high school in central NY for an Alumni Band rehearsal and concert:\n\n<br />\nAlumni band\n{ .img-caption }\n\n<br />\n(with my Class of '83 people afterwards)\n{ .img-caption }\n\nThis week {#this-week}\n\n- Roll-out shelves for the pantry are almost all in, that should be wrapped up.\n- Remaining cabinets/trim/shelves/etc. scheduled to be installed.\n- Countertops being installed on Thursday\n- ...which lets us finish plumbing (sinks/faucets/dishwasher/disposals)\n- ...and also do the tile backsplash\n- ...and that's just about it.\n\nMy plan is to go downstairs on Saturday morning and cook breakfast. Not in the microwave. Not in the toaster. For real.\n\nKeep your fingers x-ed for us.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw\n\nBacklinks: {#backlinks}\n\n- Renovation 2016\n\n<small>View Change History</small>",
  "title": "Week 25: Leaving Ground"
}