12 January 2016

Long day!!!! Was at Green Mountain Power at 6:45 only to find that they didn’t have any of the items on my shopping list, most especially the 3″ round ceiling boxes that we needed for today.  Tom Hobbs and Logan got here at 7:30 for another full day of ducting.  Tom Morrisey and I spent the day drilling holes in studs, installing outlet boxes, and running wire hither and yon.  For the record, Tom did the master bedroom and I did the living / dining room.  Note for carpenters: don’t put nails or screws in wall studs anywhere near 24″ up from the subfloor; Tom and I both now need new 1″ drill bits… (grrrr!)  Left at 3:30 headed for Burlington (in the snow).  After dinner with Alverta, made a raid on Lowe’s, only to find that some greedy homeowner had cleaned them out of 3″ round ceiling boxes the other day and their resupply hadn’t arrived yet.  Rats!!!!  Didn’t stop me from putting a few hundred more dollars on the credit card, though.  Got back to Fern Lake at 9 after only one encounter with black ice… things got a mite squirrely there for a moment.