The Whisler Life

So, as mentioned in the last post, the carpet installation happened on Tuesday - well, almost.  Chad and I met Bill at the cabin at 10am and helped clean out the remaining debris from upstairs.  Within half an hour, the carpet installer had arrived, alone.  I have never heard of anyone installing carpet alone, and we assumed that someone else would show up shortly thereafter.  Nope.  Just Martin.  Amazingly enough, he managed to haul, cut, and place all of the padding and carpeting by late afternoon.  Since we work on a generator for power, and the only lighting is by propane lantern, he wasn’t able to finish the installation before the light faded.  He asked to come back the next day (Wednesday) to finish up, which was fine with Bill.  Bill arranged to meet him back up at the cabin (keep in mind it’s almost a 2 hour drive from Portland) at 2pm the next day.  Next word I get is from Bill on Wednesday evening saying that he arrived at the cabin to find a note on the door saying the installers couldn’t get the generator to work (sidenote: there is no cell service at the cabin… nor within about 30 miles, so communication is, let’s just say, difficult).  So Bill had driven all that way only to arrive at an empty cabin, without fully installed carpet.  He was NOT a happy camper!  To make a long story short, we’ve rescheduled for next Wednesday… hopefullly everything will get finished up then!  We’ll keep our fingers crossed!  There are several photos of our adventures on Tuesday - take a look.