15 January 2016

Only geese at Fern Lake today.  For the first two hours, Sonny finished installing the KOMA® blocking for the various exterior west wall vent hoods and Doug sistered the joists under the master bath shower pan that had been cut down (and thus weakened) to create the shower pan depression.  Sonny and Doug then spent the rest of their 8 hours building the solid railing on the main level that surrounds the stairwell.  And when I say solid, I mean rock-solid; that critter ain’t movin’!  Tom and I finished wiring the north end of the main level, then transitioned to the sun room and environs.  As we needed 3 round boxes for wall-mounted lighting fixtures, I scavenged them from the ceiling.  Mostly I did the carpentry part of the electrical wiring (putting up boxes, installing blocking, drilling holes in studs and plates, and generally making a mess of things), while Tom figured out what wires needed to go where and then pulled them from box to box.  He and I also spent some time after lunch searching the internet, but not finding, the Panasonic ceiling exhaust fans I want for the master and guest bathrooms.  After protracted BS from the legal department at our bank in Virginia, they finally allowed Chree to sign (for both of us) the papers that trade the rights to our first and second born male children in return for some of the money we need to finish building the house.  Whew!!!!