28 July 2016

Kevin arrived at 8:30 to begin laying the patio.  He spent much of the day figuring out how the pieces fit together.  He also sawed two gravestones in half to make curbs for the ramps that will be outside the garage people door and the shop door.  Kevin tried to plug his masonry saw into the exterior patio outlet, only to discover that there not only was no outlet under the waterproof cover, there also was no wire in that junction box.  Nobody to blame but myself, as I wired the garage outlets.  Proving that miracles still can happen, I opened up the garage wall (taking the drywall out in several pieces during my search and destroy mission) and ran the missing wire (though a quadruple stud combination without benefit of a right-angle drill) in less than an hour.  Many sheetrock screws later, and the wall was sort of back together.  No worries, joint compound will cover a thousand sins… or a monumental hack job!