It's Drywall *cough*

With apologies for the paucity of posts and updates, I beg your indulgence gentle reader (and I do mean you, Dad!) It seems my cameras and I are engaged in a power struggle--literally. For some reason my batteries last about 1/100th of the normal charge. Canon will see to the cause.


In exchange for your understanding I will offer a couple of snaps of a nature bent at the end of this post.



For now, here's the houth news.

Last Friday we arrived to find the drywall being delivered by a machine right out of a science fiction movie. This thing had an arm that could pluck duck hunters out of the marsh in a New York minute. (Hey, that's not a bad use for the thing.)



Of course I didn't have my camera so this enormous event went unrecorded.


But very quickly on Monday the drywallers got busy and a cracked through this stuff like nobody's business.


Here's a shot from the living room looking through the bookcase into the master bedroom. I wasn't aware of all the drywall dust in the room until I downloaded this picture. I will be seeing my doctor tomorrow. I think the longevity of drywallers must be short.





In other news, our solar panel project has been approved by the Wisconsin Focus on Energy program. The program offers $25oo and the federal government will offer a tax credit of 30%. So this makes the idea very affordable. The panels should go up fairly soon so you can look forward to seeing them in a future post.


As you can easily see from the following images, the tamaracks are in their full glory. These wonderful trees will shed their yellow needles soon and will reemerge in the spring with the softest green you can find.



This angle looks north from the rental.

Oh, and here's another drywall shot (in case your lungs are getting too much fresh air) looking toward the dining room.