Sunrise EP15 - Working on Master Bathroom Vanity and Kitchen

While still feeling exhausted from the Oregon trip and the CrowdStrike effect with 4 trips back and forth to the airport in vain and the fruitless results of the two 6-hour calls to chase the luggage, Ducky was still smiling!  😄

Don't Worry Be Happy

Ducky never let go any minute to build our Sunrise home when he was at home. He spent entire Saturday July 20, 2024 to work on the master bathroom vanity, connecting the dishwasher, putting together the faucets for the butler's pantry sink and the kitchen sink. 
He ran back and forth to the Home Depot. Then, Ta Da!  With his magic touch, we now could run the water in the butler's pantry, and in the kitchen, and the dish washer worked!  

The Master Bathroom Vanity was not perfectly fit the water pipes. Ducky needed to cut and saw and rebuild the pipes coming from the wall. I could help as a photographer and ensured to capture his smiling.😁 Ducky was so handy, and very efficient. He got things done within a short period of time. I was glad that on Sunday, after coming back from the airport, he decided to just chill out with me. He deserved a day break. My Super Ducky!

 Hey Baby, I'm your handy man

 

Sunrise EP14 - Here come the Emperor Blue Countertops

Ducky joined Jesse at the Oregon Country Fair from July 9 to July 17, 2024.  The fair was held from July 12 to July 14. After coming back, his work scheduled him to fly right on July 19.  I could feel how exhausted he might be. July 19 was also the day the fabricator came to install the countertops. I drove to Sunrise home on July 18, so I could be with Ducky even for just one night. And I could also be there when the fabricator install the countertops in the evening of July 19. 

Ducky left to the airport and was ready to fly to Kansas City on Friday morning of July 19. And BAM!  Delta got hit hard by the ironic CrowdStrike who was supposed to heal and not harm Windows operating system.  Ducky had waited patiently at the airport and finally came back home around 5:00 p.m. He came back without knowing where his luggage might be. He explained to me that, the airport was so crowded and chaos like this. 👇

An AWESOME thing was when he came back, the Emperor Blue countertops were right here for him to enjoy. Hooray! Hooray!  Looks how pretty our kitchen had become. 

I just could not help to record more about his Kansas City trip saga.  On Friday July 19, he was put on hold for 5 hours until an agent answered his phone which then told him to call another number. He then, took another 7 hours on Saturday to follow up on the luggage with the outcome that did not help at all as he needed to show up in person at the airport to then again chase his luggage there. His flight was changed to Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and he left home at 4:30 a.m. and again came back home at around 2:00 p.m. And then, again the flight was changed to Monday at 9:00 p.m. and was delayed to 11:00 p.m. which was then again delayed to 2:00 a.m. and finally at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday July 23, he arrived at the hotel in Kansas City. My poor Hero Ducky!  Pat Pat Pat BIG HUG BIG HUG BIG HUG.   

Oh, his luggage got first class seat on the CrowdStrike day and already flew to Kansas City waiting for him there!  😂

What is CrowdStrike (CRWD), and how did it cause global IT outages? (cnbc.com)

Sunrise EP13 - Van Halen Night

On Saturday July 6th, 2024, we went to Boot Barn Hall in Gainsville, GA for Van Halen Tribute concert with Kevin, Amber, Chad and four others. It was my FIRST live ROCK concert!  Before the concert, we went to have dinner at a fancy restaurant nearby which was very yummy. Ducky and I shared Sea Bass dish. YUM!  At the concert, I danced with Ducky. We did hip bump and we laughed and enjoyed ourselves. Ducky took me to the dance floor, and we did silly (fun) things exactly as what concert goers were supposed to. I was also Chad's dance partner at one point.  Amber rocked along but Kevin just stood still. 😄 

P.S. Ducky put on elephant pants Amber bought for him from Thailand trip. I also wore mine to match as a couple.  Ducky's elephant pants got admired by people at the restaurant and at the concert.  Super Cool! 

Sunrise EP12 - The 4th of July Weekend - Smart Toilet and the Powder Room

Ducky flew back to Nashville, TN again on June 18th and came back on Wednesday July 3rd.  I went to see him from July 3rd to July 7th.  On July 3rd, we went to have Vietnamese dinner at Pure Pho in Gainsville. 

I helped with caulking on July 4th. July 4th was also a special day as Ducky got the powder room vanity installed!  We also tried more colors on the siding outside. Finally, we got our final picks! "Rococo Beige" for the siding and "Berry Brown" for the trims. We also got the final picks for the blinds for the 2nd floor rooms and Ducky ordered them with July 4th buy one get one free promotion. I dressed up with red dress from Thailand and we went to Olive Garden in the evening. 

Oh, I've got to write here that I just had root canal done on the tooth #5 on July 2nd. My goodness! I felt hurt so bad that I took 2 200 mg Ibuprofen and 500 mg Acetaminophen all at once that night which I had never taken that many before.  

On July 5th,I did a great job painting the trims in the living room.  Luckily the walls are also white even with slightly different white than the trims, but they are white!  Even though, I did take my time to carefully paint them. Ducky worked in the master bathroom to get it ready for the smart toilet. He also continued the vanity work trying to find and fix the leak in the powder room.  Friday evening of July 5th, we went to Blue Bicycle, our favorite restaurant to celebrate more jobs well done. 

On July 6th, Ducky again did a fantastic job installing the smart toilet. The installation really needed our brain power. 😅  I was so nervous to do my assigned task of bending down and guiding the toilet base holes to their pairing screws. And Ducky was so brilliant to think about using 2 pieces of wood technique so, we could just pair them one side at a time. I helped adding one more smart idea 😁 to the technique but doubling the pieces of wood so the toilet would sit higher than the screw.  Well, it was hard to explain but after all, our next smart toilet installation if we ever want it again would be so easy like eating a banana.  😁 (That is true as long as Ducky is the handyman, not me.)

My first time trying the "bidet" thing both front and back was so awesome. I screamed and I felt so tickled.😂 I had to hold Ducky's arm as I was ready to jump out from sitting on the toilet. Later on, that weekend, I tried it again 2-3 more times and now I am a pro!  LoL

Smart toilet is so FUN to use!

That evening, we went to ...  (continue the next EP)

See how Ducky loved the smart toilet!

Powder room made by Super Ducky!

Berry Brown PPU24-02

Rococo Beige HDC-NT-15