Household frustrations

A few fun things have occurred lately...

We had a fun flying visitor last night - a bat that Becky got up and rescued out of its pattern of flying in circles around our bedroom at 4a. I'm assuming it climbed in through one of the many tiny holes that we still have in our roof - and that are attached to our bedroom via the closet that will have trapdoor access to the kitchen attic at some point (now open).

Countertop was purchased from Menards (our favorite store) a week ago, and we called our contractor to install it. He came, he looked, and determined he couldn't do it without a miter box. Well, we went to our favorite store today, and the guys there strongly recommended that we did not try to cut or laminate countertop into the needed sections - that we should custom order it. Well, that will mean another 2+ weeks without countertop and without a sink and dishwasher. A call is out to the contractor to see if this is what he needs us to do (if so, it was not clearly communicated last week).

We picked up 2 missing doors from our Ikea kitchen order - only one more to go!

Here's the current kitchen progress: