After taking the day off on Christmas for probably the very last movie marathon day ever, we dove headlong into a week of frenzied activity putting the Hut together. Monday began with our plumber – Jay Gula coming by to install the kitchen and wash room sinks. He did an excellent job – even being cool about my screw-up in having the wrong faucets for the sinks. (I had the wash sink faucet in the kitchen sink…)

While Jay worked on the sinks, we finished painting the prep room. That was the last of the painting needed and set us up nicely for putting the Hut together later in the week.

We left Jay to finish the plumbing job while we headed home to finish putting together the list for the Tuesday Ikea run. The goal was to hit Ikea, a restaurant supply store and Lowes all in one trip. did not turn out that way. Ikea took up most of the day. Then a bit of dinner (and beer to decompress) and a stop at Lowes for more wire shelving and 55 gallon trash cans. Thanks to B & D Rentals in Margeretville, we got a huge cargo van for a great price. Good thing we did as we pretty much packed the van out with Ikea goodies.

As we still needed to get to a supply store and Lowes, we chose to head off to Albany on Wednesday for another round of shopping. Central Restaurant Equipment, Target (for some decorating & cleaning items), Lowes (lighting, hardware & sundries) and Oliver’s Beverage (for sanity preserving foamy beverage) put an end to the two day shopping frenzy. Interesting thing about shopping for a business: it’s work not fun. You’d think shopping all day would be a blast, but it actually wears on you very quickly. Thankfully, the majority of our “set up” shopping is now done.

Now it is time to set up…