The main focus of the President’s Day long weekend is to get the countertops in so that the kitchen is serviceable in time for Chelsea Nawai’s baby shower on Saturday, 2/20/10.

We are using 24" granite tiles for the countertops.  We are bullnosing the edges of these tiles.  I bought a wet /dry tool for grinding and polishing the edges of the granite.  As an accessory to the polisher, I bought a shop vac vacuum attachment that was supposed to suck up all the water and granite dust.  It did not do a very good job, so Pop decided not to use it.  This made for a very wet working environment.  So Pop got out a big leather raincoat and he work his fireman’s turnout pants and heavy leather boots.  He was still soaked through and through.

The grinder itself did a shockingly good job at making beautiful bullnose.  Shockingly because although the power cord had a huge GFCI built into it, my dad said that he got shocked each time he turned the device on or off.  And, as the day progressed, the shocks got worse.

He was definitely glad to be done with that job.