All Work and No Play.......

What a crazy weekend! We went up early Saturday to work on insulating the upstairs in preparation for the pine wall installation. First we had to clean up the remaining snow from the last snowfall. Our guy Don (a real saint) does a great job keeping our driveway open for us, but can only get so close. There wasn't a lot but needed to clear away from the doors and trailer. Ryan and I went off to Home Depot in Littleton to pick up the door for upstairs, and Karen finished up installing the soffit ridge vent. After we returned, we got started on the insulation. It was a slow, itchy process, but we managed to know out almost half in about six hours. It is very tedious cutting and fitting, and crawling in and out of the knee wall area, and stapling upside down at times.
We got it pretty warm in there too, so warm in fact we actually ended up shutting off the heater several times. It will really be awesome once the room upstairs is totally enclosed. 58 degrees doesn't seem very warm but when you are working with insulation you don't want it to be much warmer, or else the itching really starts in. All the while, as we worked the snowmobiles went by the house. Single riders, groups of 3, 4, 5, and more drove by in both directions all day long. All I could think was sure, rub it in, rev those engines a little more while we are here working. At least I know we are working on a long term goal, so that made it a little easier to swallow. I also did a little electric work, having to move a few switches, and rewire one of the lights to come on with a single switch. Of course I waited till it was late in the day and had to hurry before dark. Karen caught a nice shot out the front window with the video on her camera, as several snowmobiles crossed the street.

That evening after dinner watching the weather report, they were forecasting winter storm warning for all of Vermont till Monday morning. We got up the next day and it was snowing! Off we drove to the garage, and the roads already had 3-4 inches with the prediction of 8-16 inches for the day we decided we would just head home, because it was a 3 1/2 hour drive on a good day. The snow was coming down too.We jumped back on the highway, and headed south. 1 lane was semi clean, but it didn't take long before we passed a truck towing a snowmobile trailer, which looked like it flipped, and ripped the enclosure off like tin foil on a ring-ding. We saw several other spin outs and people in snowbanks as well. By the time we hit White river Junction, the snow was light. By the time we got to Springfield, Vt the roads were dry pavement. Once into Massachusetts, rain sleet, snow and any combination of the above. Back home in one piece but lost some valuable work time, better luck next weekend.