He's Aliiiive!!!

Wednesday...
Me: The roofers want to know when you'll get the chimney done so they can waterproof it.
Mason: We'll come do the fireplace today since it's raining, then do the chimney Friday when things dry out.
Me: Great.  So the ledgestone you ordered came in?
Mason: Ledgestone?  They just gave me "Strip".  @%&#.  I'll have to reorder it.  But I'll still be there Friday to do the chimney.

Friday....
No mason.
Saturday...
No mason.
Sunday....
No mason.
Monday.... giving up hope
The mason showed up out of the blue and did the fireplace AND chimney in one day.  Well, almost.  He ran out of stone for the fireplace and didn't have the hearth stone or chimney cap.  But we're making progress!

National Grid connected our electricity!  No more generators!  This is what an electric meter looks like when you've used 00000 kWh of electricity.

Plumbers finished the rough in today and are ready for inspection tomorrow.  This is the the copper pan for the master bath shower.

Thanks to two consecutive 12 hour days put in by my dad, we were able to side a good chunk of the front of the house.  I started the day Saturday by falling through the porch joists when a board flipped up.  Luckily my feet his the ground before something else hit the joist...  Got a good bang on the knee though.  The last course above the porch went up in the dark on Sunday by the light of the LED on the front of the electric drill.  Thanks, dad!  And thanks mom for giving him up for the weekend and bringing us lunch!

Started siding the bay today.  Decided to give up on painting all the trim for fear I'll run out of time before the winter.  Just prepainting the sides of the trim.  I'll get to the rest in the spring...

He may take a while to get here, but his work looks great! 

Tuesday - Dig well trench.  Wednesday - well company calls to say they aren't coming because it's raining.  Friday - bail out well trench.   Monday - Install water line and electric power to well pump.  Tuesday through Thursday - rain fills well trench again (can't be bailed out by back hoe since there are pipes in it now).  Friday - siphon the majority through dad's borrowed garden hose.  Saturday - nearly pass out trying to start a siphon to empty the last of the water.  Sunday - trench finally filled back in.  No more water, hopefully.

Panel installed.  Power turned on.  Some rooms wired.  Now what?

A sighting: the mason hard at work.