1 July 2015

I got up extra early, broke fast quickly, then disassembled and pulled out of the ground the power line that ran from the existing electrical subpanel to the top of the walkway. (That line was going to be a major pain to dig around when putting in the septic system force main… and, sooner or later (so why not sooner?) it would need to be fed from the house utility room electric panel.) Sonny and Ian arrived at 7 and spent the day framing basement walls, finishing the studwork for the utility room and bedroom #1.  Jimmy and James came at their usual time (7:45) and started digging the trench for the septic system force main.  The Camp Precast Concrete truck showed up at 9:30, bearing, this time, the correct, 1,500 gallon, septic tank, which was quickly put into the ground.  All this time the rain was coming down steadily, making Sonny and Ian happy campers and Jimmy and James much less so.  Jimmy’s day went considerably downhill when his excavator tangled first with the sauna waterline and then with the electric line that runs from the top of the walkway down to the waterfront.  If you bet on the PVC conduit to have won those encounters, you lost.  Chree and I headed into Middlebury to procure parts needed to repair that damage, plus do some other errands.  We stopped at Goodro’s to stock up on 3″ deck screws (I swear Ian must be eating them…), and to order a new, properly-sized  Anderson 400 series Frenchwood 54611 patio door for the sun room.  When we returned, Jimmy and James had departed for drier climes.  Between the afternoon rain showers, Chree and I wandered about talking design issues.  We also made a fabulous beef stew for dinner.