The weather outside has been frightful since my last post. Rains nearly every day. Cold and windy in between rain storms and throughout each week. All of the leaves have fallen and the ground in most places is covered three leaves deep. This is sort of a mixed blessing because the leaves cover the mud, and there's been plenty of mud around. Not much outdoors work has been done, but there's plenty to do.
The Framing Inspection we scheduled for Monday before last didn't happen. When the guy came he told us the plumbing and electrical parts of the larger framing inspection had to be done first. The inspectors in Washington County are pretty good people so we received some good guidance on what to do. We scheduled the electrical inspection the next day.
The electrical inspector came and told us to do some stuff before the inspection could take place. Some wiring changes for the most part. Quite a bit of work. But we spent a few days clearing all of this up and so we'll be ready in a day or so. Once they inspect and pass this we can get PGE out to put in the main power wire and have power in the house shortly thereafter.
The plumbing inspection is getting close to ready too. I had to change some stuff slightly and finish putting things together, but with the exception of completely filling the septic and vent system to the very top we are pretty close to ready. The waste system is pretty large and there are quite a few parts glued together, so the way they check for it all being good the ask you to plug all of the openings and fill the system up until it runs out of the roof vents. It is going to weigh a ton once it is al filled up and we're hopeful it will all hold up. The water system must be checked too, but we'll probably sail through it.
Wednesday last we had a dry period and so we started wrapping the house in waterproof paper and putting windows in. The inspector gave us some guidance and so a few of the windows had to be re-ordered in tempered glass. We were able to get most of the lower windows in, but the second level will take towing the scaffold around the whole house to put the paper on and hang the windows. It will take a hard day to do and hopefully our son Jack will help out. We'll still have to paper the gables too, so another day of climbing in our future.
Not much farming to do in the mud, but we did find a really cool planting table on CraigsList for free. It was a standing sand box in a Sunday school and now we're going to r-purpose it into a a planting table. The thing is about two feet high so the first order of business is putting some taller legs on.
Chickens, Ducks, and Dogs are all doing well. The eggs are selling once more, but on a wildly scaled down basis. Not much else happening as we pray for drier weather and passed inspections.
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