Week 15 – A Little Bit of Framing

(This post was delayed because we were without internet for almost a week. It is nice to be back from the dark ages.)

Checking things out.

Several people have told us that the framing part of this big construction project should go relatively fast. Apparently that’s only true if you have more than two workers and both the weather and their health cooperates. We will assume that the reason no one worked on Monday last week was because it was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Tuesday, the carpenter showed up and worked for about three hours and then left. No one came on Wednesday or Thursday. I waited until Thursday afternoon, but then I sent a message to the contractor to find out what was up. We were rather frustrated by the lack of work at that point, so I came up with a list of comments that I did not send to the contractor. I have not included them here, because they were too snarky. Use your imagination.

What I actually said was polite, but pointed. Someone responded, apologizing for not telling us sooner, and said that several workers or their families had been sick, but that they would be working the next day. Three guys worked on Friday and they made some good progress. So here are some pictures of that.

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How things looked Friday morning.

They built a wall!

How things looked at the end of Friday.

Despite how slowly things are moving, the framing is pretty exciting. It’s neat to see things taking shape and to see where windows and doors will be.

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Bonus for the week: Jonah made a “No Dinosaurs Allowed” sign for our front door last week. I have to say, it has been working quite well. I have not seen a single dinosaur in here since then. If anyone needs a similar sign for your house, I bet he would take orders.

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