Rock On

(Maddie here, catching up....)
Pog and Gregg have been working very hard, and it's quite a tiring process! So the updates are not as frequent as we'd like, but here's the latest.

Monday and Tuesday were the skylight installation days - we had an outside contractor (even more outside than Gregg, that is) come to cut the holes in the roof. Gregg did as much prep work as he could with framing and preparing the spaces. David and Mike, the roofers, installed the kitchen skylight on Monday morning, and the bathroom skylight on Tuesday morning. Thank goodness we had water for them, since they didn't come prepared and would have otherwise died of heatstroke! The weather has been awfully hot - it topped out about 97 degrees on Wednesday, and on a black rubber roof it gets probably closer to 2,000 degrees.

Depsite a few struggles with the contractor (let's just say Gregg almost got thrown off the side of the roof by the 300 lb roofer) - success! The kitchen and bathroom both have a new wonderful source of natural light. A little more (ok, a lot more) framing and finishing work remains to be done, however.


The next task was to begin finishing the walls of the bathroom with sheetrock and backerboard, in preparation for the tiling. Pog is an expert "rocker" at this point! All this screwing is fairly strenuous work...



Gregg continues to finish the skylight details (or fight being abducted by aliens, depending on who's conspiracy theory you listen to....), which will then need to be rocked too. Vic and I show up in the evening after work, and try to make some semblance of a contribution, but the weekends are our most productive time. We have high hopes for this coming weekend, and making some major progress on the bathroom and kitchen reassembly.

If you've been reading and enjoying our blog, and living vicariously without sweating as much as us, then let's have some more comments, people! Comments make us happy. Comments keep up going. Help us, or Maddie and Vic may be wall-less and water-less for way too long and Pog may never see her kitties again ...