15 March 2016

So I was eating breakfast at 6:30 when I noticed, observant person that I am, that all the lights were on over at our new house.  Abandoning nourishment in favor of security, went over to investigate, discovering that Kaleb Roberts, Matt Pratt, and Brendin Roberts from Ryan’s Quality Painting had arrived to prime the main level walls.  Seems they like to start work at 6…  No screwing around with these guys: Kaleb and Matt wielded 18″ rollers while Brendin worked hard to stay ahead of them doing the cutting in.  Eric got here at 7 and worked on applying the third coat of joint compound to the lower level walls.  He had done as much as he could for today and left at 2, along with Matt.  The two Roberts brothers stayed another hour to finish the painting.  I went into Middlebury late morning to return the dehumidifier to Taylor Rental and meet with our National Bank of Middlebury loan officer, Beth Buckman, to do the closing on our construction loan.  To make a very long story short, Beth came out to Fern Lake on her way home at the end of the day to have a tour of the premises… and bring me all the corrected papers so that we could finish the signing process.  Jeffrey Many arrived soon after Beth and quickly replaced the broken shed garage door control wire, for which work, once again, he refused payment.  In and around the loan meetings, I wired in a temporary light and switch in the master bedroom, moved all the extraneous “stuff” out of the shop and into the storage room, and totally clogged the shopvac filter three times while removing dust from the main level floors.