Third Wednesday

After such a historic election, I am reminded of the Zen thing:

Before enlightenment there is chopping wood and carrying water,
After enlightenment there is chopping wood and carrying water.

Or perhaps after three weeks with the ups and downs I find the words of John Wesley to do as much good as you can for as long as you can to have real meaning.

Today the Vermont house was inspected. They found a few small things wrong, but really admired the quality of the work. Unfortuantely one of the things that they did not like was that the sheathing was laid side ways. This creates seams that do not have backing by the frame of the house. They required us to put studs behind each of the seams. This took most of the day to accomplish.

They did permit us to continue with the siding which is going slowly. The siding is a concrete like product called hardie plank. We use a special clipper to cut the siding, and being stiff requires effort to nail up. But progress is being made.

Tomorrow we expect to be reinspected. The entire team will go to the house. We will then divide up the rooms and insulate and sheet rock them all as far as we can.

The team at the Waxman house finished the sheet rock on the ceiling and one complete room. Two other rooms are 80% done.

Smiley taught several of our team to mud the walls and ceiling. Good progress was made on that.