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!!!!