Off to Brandon right after breakfast to have the Tacoma inspected and the
lights / brakes on the trailer repaired.
That work was just finishing up at 8:30 when Dennis called to say that Steve
Poplawski was at the house to install the water lines but couldn’t find
me. So, instead of doing the other
Brandon errands that were on my list, boogied back to Fern Lake. Steve and I quickly determined that Dennis’
on-site expertise was needed to figure out where the air conditioning ducts, heat
recovery ventilation system ducts, and water lines needed to run so as not to
interfere with one another. Ian and
Sonny arrived at this point, bearing quantities of Goose Creek staging that
will be needed while siding the house.
While they were getting set up and started sanding and painting the west
side window trim (something that Chree and I wanted to do last week, but…), I
headed back to Brandon to do the errands missed earlier plus get the screening
that provides an insect barrier at the top and bottom of the Home Slicker®
(something else that was supposed to have been done last week). Got back to Fern Lake before Dennis arrived
at 11. With the HVAC and plumbing
deconflicted, had Sonny replace 4 of the shop north wall 2x4 studs with 2x6’s
so the water lines had room to be insulated and run to where they needed to
go. Steve finished hanging pipe shortly
after lunch and left. Using the revised
story board, Sonny and Ian finished marking the house trim to show where the
bottom edge of each shingle course will be.
Chree arrived at 2 from her babysitting sojourn. Sonny and Ian put the first (bottom) band of
Home Slicker® and bottom screen on the west and some of the south
sides of the house while I started creating the starter and finish course
shingles by cutting 5¾″ off the bottoms of two boxes (½ square) of shingles
(the 5¾″ pieces will become the finish
course at the tops of the walls; the remainders will become the starter course
at the bottoms of the walls). Plug that
connects my computer to electrons in the wall has finally failed. Running on rapidly dwindling battery
power. Call 911…
P.S. After I called the mosquito
control folks this morning and asked that we be treated ASAP, the spray truck ONCE
AGAIN went down Kate’s driveway and then down Marty & Merry’s driveway…
and passed us by!
