Kitchen Flooring- getting installed!

The flooring guy had arrived and squared up all the boards on October 17th.  They set up on the second floor of the barn and there was sawdust flying out the window!  (All of this going on as we had my son's 7th birthday party going on out in the field).

He was supposed to then come back to install later in the week. He didn't show up- which wouldn't have been a major issue except that our contractor had given us the date of Oct. 27th to schedule the cabinet installation, and the countertops were getting templated on Oct 29th.  So everything was dependent upon these floors being in.

After several stressful, agrevating phone calls back & forth with our contractor, he promised his floor guy would be there on Monday and get it done.

They showed up and were working all morning.  I left to go pick up the kids and came back to see their van exiting the other end of the driveway.

Inside the kitchen, I peeked in and saw they had four rows completed... which looked great, but was less than half the kitchen!

I thought perhaps they were taking a late lunch, but then noticed all of their stuff wrapped up nicely in the far corner.  We called the contractor and he followed up with them and found out they had wrapped for the day.  WHAT?

There was heated discussion with the contractor about how the cabinets guys were coming at 7 am in the morning.  The contractor came over that night and he laid plywood where the cabinets were to go, to bring them to height.  We weren't thrilled with this solution, but the contractor said he'd be there first thing in the morning to discuss with the cabinet guys.

This was, by far, the worst day of the project so far.

On the bright side (because I have to find something to smile about, or I'll go crazy!)...
I do LOVE how the old boards are looking!  This is the little nook between the butler's pantry & the dining room...