8 months later - Basement Update

 Oh hell, wrote in Jan 2022 and forgot to publish. Not that anyone follows but anyway....now it's Aug and finally adding pics.

Boy I didn't realize the time delay a pandemic would have on shipping! 😆 The couch didn't end up arriving until mid October. But wanna hear something hilariously lucky? They have somehow so far forgotten to charge us for it. I'm almost done paying for the recliner and they informed us when we bought (and paid like 10% down for both items) that the rest of the charges wouldn't hit the account until the items were delivered. And sure enough when the recliner came in August two weeks later there was the bill.  But we've had the couch for 3 months without the charge. I keep waiting for them to figure out their mistake when finishing out year end bookkeeping. We shall see.* Aug update - they finally figured it out in mid February. It is now the only debt left from this hella expensive project. But it was but 5 years interest free and we are down to about 40% left to pay so in the end all my worries in previous post how to pay for it all has worked out.   

Oh and that front bar? Just arrived 2 weeks ago! I think the guy we found online got too many orders when the price of lumber was sky high and just put us off for as long as possible until we threatened to report it as fraud. But it's here. And we stained it to match the back bar. And soon we'll epoxy the top to look similar to the butcher block top of the back bar and wrap the outside inch of the tops in faux leather and add a foot rail.  With us luck in these final steps to complete & personalize it. 

But so now all items are in. And we have decor up in some places.  Including a autographed Bears Jersey of Mike Singletary #50 I bought for Mr. Juice's 50th Birthday. 

And I knew we'd enjoy the space, I just wasn't sure how often.  But Jeff has spent every Sunday down there enjoying football season.  And every Thursday a friend stops by for cocktails while his daughters have dance class two blocks away.  And we spend one or two nights a week down there for evening TV watching as it's a more comfortable couch then our family room.  Oh and Jeff plays his Golden Tee almost daily either during his lunch hour since he works from home or as I'm making dinner.  So everything has truly been worth it.  We're two months out from his bonus that will pay off the last of the debt of it all a year since it all began.  Depending on if/what of his bonus is left after we will either just be replacing the back fence or do that as well as the berm & pine trees we hope to add to the backyard. We shall see.  But I'll do a separate post next on travel expectations for this year.  Photos to be added later as I'm on cellphone.