11 May 2016

A very eventful day, which started off with the lights going on over at the new house shortly before 4 am.  Tim and Brett both decided to get an absurdly early start on their workdays.  Why, you ask, was I awake at that hour to observe the lights going on?  You’ll have to ask Geisha about that.  She must have figured that if she couldn’t sleep, than neither could Chree nor I... for the second night in a row!  Kaleb, Matt, Brendin, and Jason arrived at the marginally more civilized six o’clock hour.  Tim varnished doors and the Ifelele railing top caps; Brendin sanded doors for Tim to varnish; Kaleb and Matt applied Macaroon Cream (amazingly, it looks just like macaroon cream) to the lower hall walls, then Kaleb painted the half bath with Nature’s Gift (a lovely medium green); Jason finished putting Chantilly Lace on the last of the trim; and Brett started painting the inside of the exterior doors.  When Tim wasn’t using the varnishing room, I put a second coat on the maple thresholds in the morning and another just before dinner.  Sonny and Brandon worked on putting in the cleats for closet shelving all day.  Tom and I installed switches, outlets, and lights in the kitchen / sun room area, including the two pendant lights and the wall sconces.  We also put in the two puck lights that will illuminate the glass shelves in the upper hall and the two swivel can lights that will provide accent lighting to the woodstove.  Chree spent an hour before lunch installing Anderson window hardware (the cranks that open / close the windows and the levers that latch / lock the windows closed).  Dennis Senesac showed up unexpectedly mid-afternoon to appraise the plumbing and HVAC work status.  He assured me that Steve will be back next week to continue that work, which will be complete by 2 June.  Ron Highter came by late afternoon to take measurements and discuss design details for the four custom cabinets he will be building for the house.  Ron also took away all of the remaining Ifelele to use in building some of that cabinetry.  We got an email from our buyer’s realtor saying that our Virginia house appraised for exactly the agreed upon sales price.  We be smilin’!!!!