House update: Thursday

[electricland]

because you knew all this non-house content was too good to last.

My aunt reports:

Hello all. Lovely day.

For lunch we had eggs Benedict and asparagus.

John is working on wiring on the third floor to separate boxes for base plugs and light switches. Evidently, another change in inspectors' perceived wisdom.

Stuart has finished the third floor floor.

Brian the Tile is there. Dan is cutting drywall, etc. to get stuff ready.

Lever and Wedge are there.

Helen

I swear, we'd be living there already if it wasn't for all those pesky inspectors.

OK, maybe not.

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[raithen.livejournal.com]

I swear, we'd be living there already if it wasn't for all those pesky inspectors.

*ahem*

Yes, we certainly NEVER moved into a house we built (we were our own Gen Contractors and I worked 40 hours in 4 days at my paid job, then worked the 3 day weekends, too, on the house ;) before final inspection to confirm that we could move in. Because that would have been WRONG.

Actually, we moved into that house (the cedar log one out by Summerhill Winery) 16 years ago this weekend, to be precise. Because we were living in a trailer and a tent and it was frelling COLD at night and the house was ready and my mother looked at my father and that was IT we were moving in, inspectors be damned. ;) Thanksgiving dinner never tasted so good, I tell you what!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

you totally have me beat for the hair-raising renovation stories, although really I'm just getting started.

My mother has stories about me crying in my crib while she was being a drywall crane and unable to get to me. She still feels guilty about this. Early trauma...

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Who are lever and wedge?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Lever & Wedge are apparently your dad's names for the World's Simplest Tools.

I believe they are in some way connected to Wayne the Foam. I have to admit that I'm having a little trouble keeping up with the dramatis personae these days.

R