Shredding 2013

As if I know the difference between powder and blue ice...

Neal, Jan, Luna, and Uma, celebrating Neal's birthday on the mountain

Uma casting - a shadow?? - don't see them much around here.

But wait - what about the house? Have we been ski bums since Christmas?

No.  We haven't.

RIGHT after Peter finished up the plumbing (and filled the lines with water to check them, whereupon water sluiced into the building.  One of the new pipes had a dime-sized hole in it...how's that for quality control?  Glad it wasn't underground.), Neal started on the electrical.  

Whee-ow, you would not believe all of the wiring in the house.  They tell us it's a simple one...

Simple or no, we're grateful to Andy and Ashley, who came and tamed the medusa.

Setting up a temporary woodstove helps fingers stay thawed.  It will dry the drywall mud eventually.

One of the most difficult things is figuring out where everything should go, before the house even looks like a house.  This is our comm box.  The wires go to our phone and data jacks.  Where do we need data jacks?  Who knows...  but we guessed.

BIG DAYS --  on the 13th, the inspector signed off on our rough-in mechanical and plumbing.
Then on the 14th, the state inspector approved our rough-in electrical.  How's that for a birthday gift? Go Neal.

That means we're good to cover.  And thank goodness, neither one of us wanted to cover it ourselves!  On Monday the 25th, a crew arrives to insulate.