The Calm Before

No pics today. Not much happening today. Antonio preps the site for what he says will be a "big" day tomorrow. It looks like our water meter has been installed. And the smokers next door have seeming gone all-passive-aggressive following a outburst by Lisa yesterday afternoon (one that was probably a little too loud for our own good), as now both husband and wife come out onto the patio about every half hour to huff and puff, forcing me to close the bedroom slider so that I don't have to breathe the smoke (though I'm already feeling it in my chest), and forcing us to keep the fan next to the screen in the living room, blowing out through the only slightly open slider (instead of letting it open all the way). And the pool is still closed.

God, I love this place. (that, my friends, is sarcasm... in case you didn't get it... got it?)

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UPDATE: 5pm

OK, so I lied. Here are some pics I took when I picked Lisa up from her meetings and the boys up from the Coreys...

Our water meter has been installed...

but the neighbors are still getting those nasty little blue notices of water cut-off on Monday... guess the City's contractors aren't as "fast" as they claim...

Lisa and I venture inside and chat with Juan Antonio. We check out the second story foundation framing above the master bedroom and notice something just beyond the framing...


It's the subfloor framing for the upstairs deck.

Note that it's solid wood (as opposed to the pressed set pieces they've been using throughout)... I'm sure there's a reason for the difference; I just don't know what it is...

And I notice from the outside that the deck framing doesn't extend all the way to the edge of the first floor construction... it must not yet be complete...


Check out all the nails tying in the bottom of one of the second story beam/supports...


Lisa and I climb the stairs to check it out form up high (this is acrophobic Lisa's highest climb yet during construction); we can see Juan Antonio removing the existing window in bedroom two downstairs:


Under the stairs looks nice and roomy... possibly roomy enough for the boys to hang their backpacks...


All in all, pretty cool. One of the other workers pulls up as we pull in. He says they've been delayed by the lack of the correct subfloor hangers, but he's got them now.

We've been delayed? You really can't tell from the progress being made...