3.11.2016

I started my day early today - with a trip to Sam's Club in Albany to get my tires rotated.  I've learned that the only way to get it done without a long wait is to be there when they first open at 7:00. 

I was hoping to be able to pick up our flashing on my way home, but Jim said it wasn't in yet.  Unfortunately, that didn't change all day - the flashing was supposed to arrive today to the roofing company by UPS but didn't show.  Which means that we now have to wait until Monday for it.  It's not that there isn't a lot of other things to do, but the plan for this weekend was to get the flashing so that Jim could make the drip edge for the stairwell roof.  Then we could get the underlayment put on.  Jim also needs the flashing material to make flashing for around the double door.

So it was back to Plan B.  Jim worked on more electric wiring...he had to drill holes and use more conduit in the areas where there are multiple studs.  That done, he was able to get more receptacles installed and the breaker put in so that they are now live.

At lunch, we went to pick up the cold-formed steel that Jim had ordered to do more fascia backing.

Another project today was to change the oil in the Bobcat - never seems to be a good time for vehicle maintenance but it is definitely important to keep all the equipment working well. 

In the late afternoon, we had a visit from our insurance agent.  He had called Jim yesterday and said he just wanted to stop by and see the progress.  Who does that?  He just took a tour and chatted for awhile - he was very impressed with all the progress since he had seen it last time.  Never in all our years of paying insurance did an insurance agent just stop by our property to see it!  We feel very lucky - we have had so many experiences like that since we moved here.

At the end of a little discombobulated kind of day, Jim spent time doing some repair work on the driveway after the winter weather.  Plus he was able to start doing some grading up on the upper driveway. 

It's a good time to do some grading - the soil here is so amazing!  We are just coming out of winter weather - which involved much more rain than it did snow this year.  Plus it was mostly a drizzly day yesterday.  But since the temperatures have been climbing up, the soil is thawing out and absorbing all the water.  There were no muddy spots today at all.

 

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