Two More Critter Nests

There is so much to remodel here, but I never guessed that the utility room would be priority one. But alas, before can install the water heater, or all the electrical/water/propane plumbing, we had to address the fact that our utility room looked like a murder scene, covered in black plastic splattered with ... who knows what. In the teardown today, which was thoroughly disgusting by the way, we discovered two more critter nests: one wasp den, complete with "hibernating" wasps, and another twiggy structure that could have been either bird or squirrel. 

After that fun, we built a timber-lined bed of pebbles for the new generator to sit on.

Then we pushed all the dirt back into all of the trenches we dug last week. 

Then at 4 p.m., we quit for the day -- and felt like we didn't get enough done. We've never been daunted by house projects before, but consider us daunted. Overwhelmed. Exhausted. 

We cracked open two beers and built a bonfire out front with flames leaping 4 feet high. We sat still for about 10 minutes before we started again -- picking up sticks and branches and throwing them on the fire.

Some bright news: 60s tomorrow and most of the coming week. We'll be back in the zone.