2 July 2015

The Goose Creek dynamic duo arrived, per usual, at 7 and continued work putting up basement interior walls.  The Goodro’s truck was here at 7:30 with the AC plywood that will be used to sheath the interior of the utility room.  I spent a couple of hours at the Middlebury DMV office arranging for the Tacoma to become an official Vermont resident.  While I was gone, Jimmy and James ran the 4″ pipe from the house to the septic tank, thence to the pump tank, ran the ¾″ electrical / alarm conduit from the house to the pump tank, ran the 2″ force main up the hill 100 feet, and installed the 3″ vent line pipe up to where it terminates in the woods between the patio and where the garden will be. Upon return to Fern Lake, Chree and I tackled repairing the damaged waterfront electrical line conduit, which took the remainder of the morning.  Sean came by early afternoon.  We spent the rest of the afternoon discussing house design details.  As usual, Sean had some great ideas about many house design elements, including how to reconfigure the kitchen to make it more user friendly.  For the house siding, we finally decided on clear white cedar shingles produced by Maibec in Quebec, Canada and treated with one coat of Cabot H2BO water bleaching stain.  Sean placed an order for 18 squares of those critters; you do NOT want to know what they cost.  Delivery expected Tuesday next.  After three false starts and much palavering, Ian and Sonny got most of the sound-deadening wall erected between bedroom #2 and the shop.  By the time he left, Jimmy had laid the septic force main up to just before Kate’s driveway and had backfilled the two tanks and the trench to that point.