19 January 2016

The sum total of my productivity for today: two electrical outlet boxes installed.  Started out by waking up and noticing lights on over at Triangle Square Circle.  Someone forgot to set his alarm…  (but, then again, it was nice to sleep in to a decent hour).  Had meant to leave for Middlebury at 7:30 to drop off the Kubota for repair, plus do some other errands.  As I was about to finally leave shortly after 8, Sean arrived.  Then the Fyles Brothers propane truck pulled in.  Then Steve and Tom and Sean and Steve and Sean and Sonny had questions.  Finally got headed down the road shortly before 9.  Got back at 10:30 to find Sean still here, but having missed a visit by Kevin Haight to talk about stone work for the wood stove chase.  Champlain Valley Equipment called almost immediately to say the Kubota was repaired… under warranty.  One of the hydraulic hose couplings had failed internally.  Answered forty zillion more questions and then it was lunch time.  Sonny and Doug put in a little more blocking, but spent most of the morning talking with Sean.  Steve spent the day continuing the plumbing rough in, running the PEX water lines to all the plumbing fixtures on the house main level.  With no help from me, Tom finished wiring the kitchen, which pretty much completed the wiring for the main level.  In the afternoon, after the Goodro’s truck delivered some more LVL’s for the stairway half wall and a few thousand screws, Sonny and Doug started to put up the radiant floor heating pans between the floor joists.  Bryan Arnold, tile and slate flooring installer from Precision Tile, came by to scope out the work he will be doing.  After Bryan left, I put up the aforementioned electrical outlet boxes then, as it was starting to snow heavily, went back to Middlebury with the trailer at 3 o’clock to retrieve the Kubota.  Driving was a bit dicey.  Once safely back to Fern Lake, used the snow blower to finish clearing Kate’s driveway.  Marty and Merry came down for a fabulous dinner prepared using recipes in A Man, A Can, A Plan: 50 Great Guy Meals Even You Can Make!  That about says it all.