27 February 2016

Chree (Ms. Lead Foot) and the dogs departed for Virginia a little before 8, arriving safely 8½ hours later… with 2½ stops en route.  She said the traffic was heavy but flying the whole way.  Uh, huh…  The new house was nice and warm but quite humid inside when I checked things this morning.  Discovered that the dehumidifier coils were completely frosted over.  So unplugged the beast, moved it upstairs into a patch of sunlight, and left it for the morning to thaw out.  Usual Saturday morning cleaning routine at Kate’s followed by hours catching up on bill paying and the construction finances spreadsheet.  Created the summary budget that the bank wants as the final piece of paper (yeah, right!) before they let me close on the construction loan we need to finish building the house.  When we first bought the property, Chree said she wanted the house to be oriented exactly in accordance with the cardinal directions, i.e., north / south / east / west.  Checked the as-built orientation by reference to the sun’s azimuth this noon.  The west wall of the house is “pointed” at 177.6°T or 2.4°east of the intended direction.  Not too awful bad given how we guesstimated where to put the stakes demarking where the foundation hole was to be dug.  Perry came over for sauna.