5 May 2016

Brett and Jason arrived a few minutes before 6.  I boogied over to the house to find they were preparing to paint some more trim.  Put a stop to that and called Tim Ryan, who was, to put it mildly, not at all happy to hear that Chree and I wanted to change the trim paint color.  After some earnest negotiations with Tim, Brett, and Jason, and a promise from me that Tim’s 13 May scheduled finish to our job would not be delayed, Tim acquiesced to having all of the house trim repainted, recommending we use Benjamin Moore Satin Impervo White Dove. I crashed through the door at Countryside Carpet and Paint in Middlebury when they opened for business at 7:15.  “I need two gallons of Satin Impervo White Dove”, I tried not to shout.  While that was being mixed, I went over to the paint display and found the White Dove color sample.  “Oh, $#@!”, I said to myself outloud, “that color looks far too much like what we already have on the trim and Chree is NOT going to like it!”  Turning to Janice Denu (one of the store’s owners) I cried, “Help!!!!”  Janice and I pawed through the various “white” paints, trying to find one with a hint of blue, without success.  We did find something called Chantilly Lace that had some black mixed with the pure white base.  Crossing my fingers, toes, legs, and arms and holding my breath, I ordered two gallons of that color.  Got back to Fern Lake at 8 to find Sean already there for his mid-week inspection of work progress.  Gave the Chantilly Lace to Brett and Jason.  A few minutes later, Chree approved the new color!  Halleluiah and pass the Scotch!!!!  (Gave the two gallons of White Dove to Tim as a peace offering when he stopped by later to check on how Brett and Jason were doing.)  Sonny and Brandon worked on door thresholds most of the day.  Brandon also put a drywall backing strip on the underside of the Ifelele railing caps so that the gaps between the top of the drywall and the bottom of the wood can be sealed.  Steve was here part of the day and finished installing the guest bath shower control valves, then installed the cutoff valves under most of the sinks.  He also made all of the domestic cold water piping connections in the mechanical room… which will have to be redone because he forgot that a water filter needs to be included in that piping.  He also ripped out the drain line in the shop lavatory because he remembered that the water softener (which would have used that drain line) has to be situated in the mechanical room vice under the stairs with the hot water heater.  And, finally, he started to plumb the hot water heater.  Two steps forward, one step back…  Jeff Many stopped by mid-afternoon to discuss some additional items we want for the garage doors… and fixed our malfunctioning garage door remote control.  (All he did was retrain the remote, something I should have been able to do myself; how embarrassing!)  After we cleaned the shop, Chree and I moved all of the interior doors into that room, where Tim will be wet-sanding them.  As we were stacking the doors on the special drying rack we’ve been using, the rack collapsed.  This resulted in virtually every one of our formerly-pristine doors getting dented by the steel rack tubes.  The bad news is that, though the rack collapsed in my direction, the doors did not, in fact, put me out of my misery.  With Sean’s somewhat reluctant concurrence, Chree called our moving company in Virginia and asked them to schedule our household goods delivery for Friday, 3 June.