19 August 2016

Kevin spent most of the day building the walkway from the front entry steps over to the driveway, using the 1″ thick irregularly-shaped slate we procured for that purpose some time ago from Vermont Specialty Slate.  Kevin used less than half of our stockpile for the walkway, so…  With this walkway complete, the house is OFFICIALLY done, i.e., all of the items in our original contractor specifications have been completed.  Mind you, there are still quite a few projects on the Honey Do list that will keep Chree and me busy for the foreseeable future…  While Kevin was working outside, I carved two holes in the kitchen desk / bookshelves area so that I could rip out the phone jack box on the west wall (that turned out to be quite awkwardly placed) and run the wires over to the phone jack box on the north wall.  Easy job!  Now I just have to hide the evidence before Chree gets back…  I also carved a hole in the north pantry wall, thinking to install a light switch to control the pantry light in lieu of the motion-sensing switch that we don’t like.  Remembered, at the last second, to offset the hole so that the switch box I was installing would miss the switch box on the other side of the wall (that controls the light over the kitchen desk / bookselves).  Don’t ya know, some (epithet deleted) plumber put a vent pipe right where I cut the hole.  With a wall stud just north of the vent pipe and another wall stud just south of the desk / bookshelves switch box, there was nowhere to put the switch I wanted to install, without getting totally bizarre with the switch height above the floor.  So some more evidence to hide from wifely eyes.