11 August 2014

Mouse #11 has joined his friends at Silver Lake.  Chree, Tasi, Rachel, Geisha, Shlomo, and many, many items of luggage all piled into Tasi’s Camry just after 7 and headed for Virginia.  Please note that Chree was in Vermont for a week and did not once don her beekeepers anti-flying-insect helmet.  Perry and I spent a productive two hours reviewing the sauna build plan and putting together a materials list to be ordered from Goodro’s.  Ian and Fred put on the small trim pieces missing from the tops of the north and west Garage interior walls.  Perry likewise trimmed out the bottom of the Garage west wall.  When Sean arrived mid-morning, he and I reviewed the insulation proposal submitted by Black Diamond and decided to go with a sealed attic vice the more traditional soffit and roof ridge vents.  Perry and Ian, appraised of that decision, finished putting sheathing on the very peak of the roof (which we had left open for venting). Goodro’s came with another mega-thousand dollar load of building materials, this time containing the sheets of ½″ MDO that will be used for the soffits and the KOMA (white PVC no-maintenance boards) that will be used for the fascias and feature strips. Sean took Fred away to another job.  I ran out to Middlebury to get 3 gallons of Benjamin Moore Aura bright white semi-gloss paint and associated supplies while Ian and Perry ripped the MDO sheets in half and had lunch.  After lunch, while I was busy painting the MDO, Ian and Perry installed 4 sections of soffit and 1 piece of the fascia.