24 July 2014

Mouse #7 was captured in the early hours and now resides with his kin at the Silver Lake parking lot.  Ian, Fred, Perry, and I continued the Purlin Project, working in much cooler temperatures today compared to earlier this week. Sean came by for his daily progress check and to offer advice on Sun Room skylight sizes and positions.  Then I went to Goodro’s to make the obligatory daily procurement (more joist hangers, this time) and to order the skylights.  Mid-morning, while I was affixing said hangers to purlins already installed by Ian and Perry, I glanced over and noticed that the purlins across the attic didn’t seem to be parallel with each other.  That caused some considerable head-scratching in Carpentersville.  Turned out that one of the purlins had somehow migrated from its assigned position… with some disassembly and reassembly required.  Called the Genie garage door opener help desk and, after four tries following the technician’s detailed instructions (doing exactly the same thing every time), the shed garage door finally decided to cooperate with me again.  Those electrons, they’re a mystery!  After lunch the crew and Kubota helped me get the log splitter out of the Tacoma and safely ensconced in the shed garage.