69.01% of site-work this month was floor related (almost all non-budgeted time too)

There once was a floor that held up the yurt that lived by the house, that never-ever should have been rented by Chris and Cassandra. Now, that floor sits at the Turnaround on Main Drive, under a tent, awaiting the arrival of the next Team YIPPEE visitor!

All the floors of YIPPEE have stories. Ask The Mud-Wallowing Carpenter Troll about the Park Avenue floor and she'll say, "from down below, everything looks just fine!". Ask Chris and he'll say, "I really wish I'd have thought to install the boards upside down". Cassandra will concur and add a curse about the Watershield, that left the floor tacky and has transfered a lot of black from their shoes.

But, this is not a story about the Park Avenue floor. June 2007 holds a story of the floors of the MLA and their struggle to transform into their fully functioning fabulous selves!

It all began one dark, stormy night. Well, it might have. Who knows? A seed whipped around, and finally landed, to take hold and brace itself against the storm to grow stronger and eventually become a tree, only to be taken down, stripped and milled into 2*6 tongue and groove boards...

But, this isn't exactly a story about the boards that came to together to make the floors, that hold up the yurts. If it was, those boards would tell a tale of horror, about a woman who got horribly sick while working in a horrible house to coat the boards with Watershield; about spending a long boring year and a half wrapped up inside that house before finally escaping in the back of Jere's truck and the Vermoose. Once they got to YIPPEE-Land things weren't so bad. (Chris and Cassandra might not have liked the hot, humid and buggy conditions, working under a huge blue tarp. But that story has already been told)

After the boards were brought together, both floors underwent similar experiences, though at different times. The floors were sanded, trimmed to the appropriately sized circles, wiped clean and coated thinly with Watershield. From here, it was supposed to be pretty easy: protected during yurt raisings and internal constructions, the floors would later be finished and appreciated.

The yurt raising rains ruined all notions of easy. Beforehand, several sock-wearing Team YIPPEE people enjoyed the floor, sliding around, chasing, laughing and even dueling, as the first day of yurt-raising proceeded. Overnight, rain and wind collapsed the tarp. Rainwater pooled on the floor until cleanup the next day, which included a release of the drip edge. For the rest of yurt raising, shoes were worn... muddy, muddy shoes. It would be a long time before the floor felt the joy of sock wearing, laughing people.

Apparently, into every floor's life, some rain must fall because the 20' yurt floor also experienced yurt raising rains. Try as C+C did to protect it, with heavy duty paper drop cloth, it got messy and wet.

The 30' floor has yet to see Chris and Cassandra live inside the yurts, but has seen a few overnight visitors: one Team YIPPEE teammate camped inside during the 20' yurt raising, and in April, two more teammates slept overnight on the rather wrecked floor.

Mud and dirt wrecked the 30' floor more than the 20'. Both yurt floors also ended up with blueish grey spotting. The entire MLA floor was cleaned and as May's summary indicated, sanding the floor took care of most of the immovable dirt, but the spotting remained. The results of much searching told C+C that these spots were a reaction between the wood and metal (very rocky soil at YIPPEE-Land). Chris found some plain oxalic acid. And, on June 2nd, the fun of spot removal commenced... Carefully.

C+C tested the oxalic acid: on a scrap board (to see what it did and how safe it was for Cassandra), and later on an inconspicuous section of floor. The spots did come out, and the coat of finish applied aferward seemed to react normally too. Spot removal on the 30' floor began that evening after dinner.

Fix the Floor Spotting Process:

1. Obtain filtered water from Park Ave and lug it up the very steep incline to the MLA.
2. Make a fire in the Eagle Stove with scraps, and heat water.
3. While heating water, prepare one bucket of plain water, and one bucket of water and baking soda mixed. Have these along with gloves, rags, brushes and tape set up on paper in the work area.
4. Gloves on to mix oxalic acid in the hot water. Bring that bucket inside, setting it carefully on the paper with rest of supplies.
5. Knee pads on and get scrubbing!
6. Working in small area (a 5 board depth, and one beam width, was usual) scrub in the oxalic acid mixture until spots disappear (this can take a bit of work/time... pass the time by occasionally making comments about the odd smell: Chris says its reminiscent of either an Italian deli or an armpit in need of a serious shower)
7. Wipe the area with the baking soda water. Repeat (and, eww this stinks too)
8. Wipe the area down with clean water (by this point, smelling more of the natural pine floor goodness). Repeat.
9. Later, after dry, sand the entire floor by hand with the aid of a sanding block, board-by-board, in small sections, on knees (that are by this point incredibly sore), wiping with damp rag as you go.

The entire process, task# 320.30 Fix Floor Spotting, for 1,020 sq feet of floor, done about 2/3rd solo, took 75.75 hours of June's site work time!

Task# 213.31 Flooring Finish consumed 71.50 hours of June's site work time, involving:

1. Work in smaller sections than for sanding or oxalic acid, to ensure even and careful application (reduce to a 3 board depth).
2. Ensure area is a clean as possible (keep rag and masking tape handy).
3. Brush finish on carefully, keeping an eye out for stray bristles and bits of debris (remove carefully). The goal is to leave as few brush marks and bits of debris as possible.
4. After the 1st coat is dry, lightly sand the entire floor by hand with the aid of a sanding block, board-by-board, in small sections, on knees, wiping with damp rag as you go.
5. Apply 2nd coat (boy-o-boy this is getting tedious!)
6. Lightly sand and wipe again.
7. Apply 3rd coat, a matte finishing coat (which looks chunky and weird, but mixes up OK and looks great when dry)
8. Woohoo! (06/28/07: 30ft is finished!! 30ft is finished!!)
9. Repeat all these steps for the 20' floor. At the end of June, application of flooring finish is not yet finished. The 20' floor was just barely started (on 6/29).

Floor ENJOYMENT at the end of June!
(zero site work hours, but a helluvalotta fun!)
C+C discover the floor is quite slippery with socks. A bunch of sliding around ensues, including Chris dragging Cass around by her feet. Cass reciprocates. There hasn't been this much laughter and good fun in the 30' yurt since the first day of yurt raising when Sarah, Jere and Connie were onsite. The amplification of laughter (and singing, and various other sounds) when standing in dead center of an empty 30' yurt is pretty darn freaky and found to be fun too!

What else happened in June besides floor related work? Besides Sneezy the Deer and more helicopters and selling of the Del Sol? ... Here's the Site-Work Stats:

• 33.67%, 75.75hrs, 320.30 Fix Floor Spotting
• 31.78%, 71.50hrs, 213.31 Flooring finish
• 7.11%, 16.00hrs, 213.17 Construct 20' walls
• 4.56%, 10.25hrs, 202.03 Prep for Landlord visit: cleaning and gutters
• 4.11%, 9.25hrs, 323.01 Rodents: under WC
• 3.11%, 7.00hrs, 226.34 Reopen GIPPEE
• 3.11%, 7.00hrs, 213.56 Construct Yurt Entry Awnings
• 2.78%, 6.25hrs, 305 Bug Control: Garlic spray, Mosquito Dunks, Diatomaceous Earth
• 2.00%, 4.50hrs, 213.49 MLA floor: clean and repair
• 1.67%, 3.75hrs, 303.16 Repairs: Woody Walkway
• 1.56%, 3.50hrs, 213.59 Install floor support boards mid-span
• 1.00%, 2.25hrs, 288.00 Wood for burning (Split and stack firewood, Off-road cart)
• 0.78%, 1.75hrs, 213.36 Site Cleanup
• 0.56%, 1.25hrs, 275.04 Materials Transport
• 0.56%, 1.25hrs, 226.37 Reopen SIPPEE
• 0.44%, 1.00hrs, 300.51 Repair broken water valve
• 0.44%, 1.00hrs, 306.01 Determine tasks Cass can do during week
• 0.33%, 0.75hrs, 213.09 Electrical rough-in
• 0.22%, 0.50hrs, 325.02 Baking Soda MLA Shrooms
• 0.11%, 0.25hrs, 213.58 Install yurt window awnings
• 0.11%, 0.25hrs, 999.99 Misc - adjust Park Ave water filter
• 0.00%, doesn't count towards site hours: 316.00 FAA...
• 0.00%, doesn't count towards site hours: 700.11 Nap
• 0.00%, 0 hours, Snow-Related Tasks

June Journal

06/01/07 - Friday

213.36 Site Cleanup

• Chris wacks the weed(s).
• time: 15 min

323.01 Rodents: under WC

• Chris discovers a dead rodent in trap, evidence (turds) of rodents inside platform, and a cracked water line valve leaking in the chase. The dead carcass is discarded, some entry points blocked, and plans made to fix leak.
• time: 1.5 hrs

305.04 Diatemaceous Earth

• Chris checks WCplatform for signs of ant invasion. finds none (whew) and gives a healthy blast of DE.
• time: 1.5 hrs

213.56 Construct Yurt Entry Awnings

• read through notes, started getting parts put together, thunderstorm happened. Hurriedly stashed part working on and tools
• Time: 1.25hrs

213.17 Construct 20' walls

• wallboards up
• Time: 1.25hrs

06/02/07 - Saturday

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• Chris tests out oxalic acid on an old 2*6. Seems to work, smells like an Italian deli.
• C&C pick a test spot in 20' and Chris scrubs out the spots. Then C&C review spotting in 30' and lay down a patch of finish over scrubbed spot. Seems it'll work out, so - after dinner - they started spot-removing in the 30'
• Tomorrow is all about the floor!
• time: 7.25 hrs

305.03 Mosquito Dunks

• Chris replaces worn out dunks
• time: .75 hrs

213.17 Construct walls - 20' yurt

• Reviewed problem area and progress-to-date
• Chris fixed a bending nail
• C&C put in another board.
• Time: 1.25 hrs

213.56 Construct yurt entry awning

• Cass continued assembling.
• Chris joins in after lunch to help with assembly.
• The awning structure is done and reeady for finish-up work
• Time: 3.75 hrs

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• Chris sizes up shower area for redneck upgrades
• time: 15 min

288.08 Split and stack firewood

• Chris fnishes the day seperating 'good' firewood from nasty rotting wood in the two-year old wood pile behind Woodshed #2. Winter is, after all, just around the corner.
• time: 30 min

06/03/07 - Sunday

Notes:

• A chilled misty day.

305.04 Diatemaceous Earth

• Chris gets dusty blasting under the 20' yurt and deck.
• time: 2 hrs

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• C&C continued spot-removal in the 30'. Chris thinks oxalic acid, when mixed with water, smells like either an Italian deli or an armpit in need of a serious shower. Though it is hoped the spot-fix will be done in time to apply a coat of finish this i
• time: 5.75 hrs

213.17 Construct walls - 20' yurt

• Cass worked on wallboards while Chris attempted to correct a warping stud.
• Time: 1 hr

306.01 Determine tasks Cass can do during week

• Which is STILL affected by the unfinished floor finishing task
• time: 45 min

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• Chris starts redneck upgrades
• time: 30 min

06/04/07 - Monday

Notes:

• Brrr. Cold and rainy and wet. Brrr!
• Return of the 7-layer Cass (and a few more) in the morning. Weird to go from Saturday, when C+C were sweating profusely from the heat and humidity, to today's 2 prs of long underwear and sweatshirts!
• Fire at night. Cass has warm shower for first time in weeks. Woohoo. But at the cost of smoke and stinky wood/creosote.

213.17 Construct 20' walls

• More of mudroom wallboards up. Took long time to hack away and fit for the electrical boxes.
• Time: 5.25hrs

06/05/07 - Tuesday

Notes:

• Thunderstorms and rain. Supposed to dry out soon -would be very nice- and be sunny soon. Hope so. Saw a rainbow off in valley in afternoon between thunderstorms.

213.17 Construct 20' walls

• all cass can do is done. Three sections await review with chris. Need more boards too.
• Time: 3.75hrs

213.09 Electrical rough-in

• marked and drilled out holes (except for ones requiring right angle drill)
• Time: 0.75hrs

213.49 MLA floor: clean and repair

• started on 20' cleanup from sanding
• Time: 0.25hrs

06/06/07 - Wednesday

Notes:

• Brr! Frost warning for tonight. Sunny in early morning and skies cleared in eve, but cloudy and cold all day. Never rained at least, but brrrbrrrbrrr.
• Little black flies out and annoying today. Argh!
• Lots of gunshots and firecrackers, etc in evening. Argh! Argh! Loud! Heart pounding crappy!

213.49 MLA floor: clean and repair

• charged vac twice and cleaned up from sanding, wiped floor. As soon as Chris gives OK to take down the plastic, can do that and then, this task will be done.
• Time: 3.5hrs

213.56 Construct yurt entry awnings

• cleaned off top, side cover scraps cut and attached, pulled yurt awning out and over, anchored with rope. Awning is ready for positioning (a 2-person job) and finishing. Woohoo.
• Time: 2hrs

213.36 site cleanup

• cass continues whacking the path up to mla - had become very overgrown and need to be able to walk up
• Time: 0.5hrs

06/7/07 - Thursday

Notes:

• Until about noon, was cloudy and cold again (even though radio kept saying its sunny today) Brrr.
• Bin for storage of winter stuff was finally worked out last weekend. Cass takes opportunity to clean and get that stuff put away, since there's limited site work options for her to work on today.

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• swapped out the new zodi pump, dried out old one and in bag for chris to take and use up in the gip
• Time: 0.25hrs

325.02 Baking Soda MLA Shrooms

• Time: 0.5hrs

213.58 Install yurt window awnings

• tried to, but really can't proceed solo
• Time: 0.25hrs

213.36 Site cleanup

• dry out a bunch of wet stuff, trash pickup, towel collection for washing tomorrow
• Time: 0.5hrs

303.16 Repairs: Woody Walkway

• Bugshirt required. Worked on making bottom step, by boiler. Almost done, need more fill.
• Time: 2hrs

06/08/07 - Friday

213.59 Install floor support boards mid-span

• Chris starts installing remaining screws
• time: 1.5 hrs

213.17 Construct walls - 20' yurt

• C&Cc review some snags Cass had hit during week and talked about next set of oddball cuts
• Cass nailed in boards as discussed, and marked for corners too
• Time: 1.5 hr

303.16 Repairs: Woody Walkway

• more step work
• Time: 1.75hrs

999.99 Misc - adjust Park Ave water filter

• new positioning off floor
• Time: 0.25hrs

06/09/07 - Saturday

• Notes
• During lunch, C&C hear a really loud, unusual, and somewhat freaky noise. Upon investigation they discover a deer in the backyard, sneezing.

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• C&C worked and worked on the 30' floor
• time: 12.25

213.17 Construct walls - 20' yurt

• Cass worked on bracketing a warped board into place
• Time: 1.25 hrs

06/10/07 - Sunday

Notes:

• First go of the weekend ice-run, 2007-workaround-scenario-to-Poocham. Sucks but works.

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• C&C worked and worked - and worked some more - on the 30' floor
• Chris hauls 120 lbs off water (15 US gallons) up to the MLA for Cass to continue spot fixin'
• time: 7.75 hrs

213.17 Construct walls - 20' yurt

• Cass adds another board
• Time: 0.25 hrs

306.01 Determine tasks Cass can do during week

• Which is...yep...STILL affected by the unfinished floor finishing task
• time: 0.25 hrs

700.11 Nap

• First mid-day nap of the project! (not that this is any kind of milestone... Chris was just way too tired)
• Time: 0.5hrs (but not actually counted, it would be silly to count napping as site work! Though... If we could build while napping...Hmm...)

213.49 MLA floor: clean and repair

• C+C take down most of plastic together, carefully rolling up to contain debris and dead bugs that fell through open dome while it was up
• Time: 0.25hrs

288.08 Split and stack firewood

• chop smaller pcs for easier catch, smaller fire during borderline weather
• Time: 0.25hrs

06/11/07 - Monday

Notes:

• Recovery from Palm crash commences.
• Up and down, cold and hot, living continues: Friday night both C's slept terribly due to extreme warmth in yurt, Saturday was sweaty hot work, Sunday was a long underwear and sweatshirt day and the woodstove housed a fire at night (ahhh, nice warm show

213.49 MLA floor: clean and repair

• Zipties and plastic all taken down. Task is done!
• Time: 0.5hrs

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• Cass does solo, including all the nasty fire-making stuff. Finished the 30' floor oxalic acid washing, baking soda rinse and water (*2) rinsing.
• Time: 4.75hrs

316.00 FAA...

• Chris talks with rep. They don't know why there'd be so many planes. Will be in area and investigate. Are legally allowed to fly as low as 500ft above. Requested we get plane#s off side to help them. Chris has to be one to do this, as Cass will get t
• Time: n/a

06/12/07 - Tuesday

Notes:

• 1st skeeter of season (for Cass). Bugger had followed her into yurt, she worked inside with bugshirt left on until it found her again and she killed it.

213.17 Construct 20' walls

• last avail wallboard up so as to be out of way, started putting some tools away too - since can't do wall work until floor done
• Time: 0.5hrs

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• connector doorsills done. removed supplies from closet. Work on front of 20' and wow, it is getting the heavy duty spotting out. Cass tries new method of scrubbing and letting it rest and dissolve the spots, while moves onto next section and going back
• Time: 5.75hrs

06/13/07 - Wednesday

Notes:

• Rainy, drizzly and cold. Another long underwear day. Raining enough to make everything messy for Cass but not enough to prevent heavy equipment operation nearby.
• Cass catches up on non building tasks in yurt.

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• making fire in rain. Yuck.
• Time: 4.75hrs

06/14/07 - Thursday

Notes:

• FUD! Well, actually, day started out OK. Or, rather, started out not great (woken to helicopter, and logging) but managed and got going and being productive, sky looked like it might clear up finally. Lots low flying planes today, including 2 delays ge

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• Time: 3.5hrs

06/15/07 - Friday

Notes:

• Cass still struggling a lot.
• Skies cleared up and turned out to be a beautiful day... C+C wish they could be spending it together, in a home.

213.59 Install floor support boards mid-span

• Chris installs remaining screws. This task is DONE (unless the floor still really creaks, in which case Chris will add a second set of screws)
• time: 2 hrs

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• Cass refills water supply for the last bit of this task
• Chris carries water up and chops up some wood for the Eagle Stove.
• finished oxalic acid on 20'
• Time: 5.5 hrs

06/16/06 - Saturday

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• Chris got started on prep sanding for finish
• Cass joined in and the two C's finished sandinng the 30' floor.
• time: 10.25 hrs

213.31 Flooring finish

• C&C start first coat of floor finish, by headlamp, in 30'.
• time: 2.75 hrs

06/17/07 - Sunday

Notes:

• Sunny, then rainy, then sunny, then cloudy
• A deer was hanging out under the deck eating tree leaves. It seemed only mildly disturbed by the presence of C&C, until Chris started hucking rocks at it.

275.04 Materials Transport

• More floorboards
• time: 1.25 hrs

213.31 Flooring finish

• Cass continues
• Chris joins in for a bit between other tasks and getting water for Cass use during week
• time: 6 hrs

300.51 Repair broken water valve

• Chris finally gets to this
• time: 1 hr

323.01 Rodents: under WC

• Chris continues sealing up the WC platform
• time: 1.25 hrs

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• Now has a shower rod & curtain
• time: 1 hr

06/18/07 - Monday

Notes:

• Sunny and mostly clear. Loud logging most of day. Then generator/lawn mowing/something. But for while in mid-evening, ahhh... Nice. Just birds and such.
• Cass finally starting to feel little better from Thursday's helicopter and plane exposure. Thus, for today's flyovers she was extremely cautious...not wishing at all to repeat the past few days (horrible)

213.31 Flooring Finish

• more knee hurting work
• Time: 6.25hrs

06/19/07 - Tuesday

Notes:

• Sunny hot n humid. Yet, rather peaceful for a change w/o loud logging equipment for good portion of morning.
• Rainy and stormy during evening.
• C+C's nightly conversation gets cut off by unicel dropping call, around 8 times, and otherwise involves a lot of "sorry, but i have no idea what you said", "can't make that out", "can you repeat that please" etc. Ugh.

213.31 Flooring Finish

• more knee bashin' fun in the hot yurt. Finished applying 1st coat of finish to 30' finally. Sanding between coats almost done for this go round.
• Time: 6.25hrs

06/20/07 - Wednesday

Notes:

• Was supposed to rain last night and be clear breezy cooler and less humid today. Was looking forward to the less humid! But alas, tis rainy and grey most of day. Clearing by eve. Maybe tomorrow will be the nice weather day.
• Cass tries out the new flyswatters Chris bought, attacking the horsefly population with speedy accuracy. Fly guts still gross her out (ewww) but hey...there's about 40 less horseflies to annoy C+C, two of which met their demise mid-breeding.

213.31 Flooring Finish

• Argh. More. Finished sanding. Started on 2nd coat, which is even more tedious to do. Seems slower.
• Time: 6 hrs

06/21/07 - Thursday

Notes:

• 1st day of summer. Rain cleared up, kinda breezy.

213.31 Flooring Finish

• more work on 2nd coat
• Time: 5.75hrs

06/22/07 - Friday

Notes:

• Brr! And Cass doesn't make a fire, braving cold shower. Brr!

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• Now has a shower setup
• time: 2 hrs

213.31 Flooring Finish

• more on 2nd coat
• Time: 4.75hrs

06/23/07 - Saturday

• Notes
• Chris does recycling and trash run which takes until 1:00
• Cass bears the brunt of Chris' Cheesy 80's Music Revu. Eventually her sanity leads her to challenge Chris into singing more interesting songs. Chris is up to the challenge, spewing out tune after tune, mostly out-of-tune, too.
• Chris heats up water with the Zodi - some for Cass and some for himself - then inaugurates the new shower setup.

213.31 Flooring finish

• Cass finishes second coat in 30'
• C&C sand in prep for third coat
• time: 6.25 hrs

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• C&C start sanding in 20' closet
• time: 1 hr

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• Chris nails down some loose platform boards while heating water
• time: 15 min

06/24/07 - Sunday

• Notes
• Another gorgeous day!
• Another day of hot showers :)

305.01 Garlic spray

• Chris wrestles the crappy sprayer into dosing the bugs with Italian Death Spray (a.k.a. Mosquito Barrier)
• time: 2 hrs

226.37 Reopen SIPPEE

• C&C erect SIPPEE(3) @ Park Ave
• time: 1 hr

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• Chris lugs more water up to MLA
• Cass continues sanding 20' floor
• Chris does some 20' sanding.
• time: 4.5 hrs

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• Chris repairs and set up tent
• time: 2.25 hrs

213.31 Flooring finish

• Discover satin finish is chunky! Cass does a test to see if it'lll work
• C&C start out putting last coat on 30' floor; Chris goes back to sanding.
• time: 4 hrs

06/25/07 - Monday

Notes:

• In eve, after a mega nasty hot miserable day working in little yurt, cass took a little 15min break to sit on the 30' floor and enjoy being up there. Will be a nice floor when finally finished.

323.01 Rodents: Under WC

• Time: 6.5

213.31 flooring finish

• hiked up to open windows because it was sweltering hot and thought would get up to do this. But rodent task took too long. So had to hike back up in eve to close.
• Time: 0.25hrs

213.36 Site Cleanup

• saw down and move fallen tree on woody walkway
• Time: 0.25hrs

226.37 Reopen SIPPEE

• cleaned chairs and tables that we unpacked other day
• Time: 0.25hrs

06/26/07 - Tuesday

Notes:

• another very hot and very humid day. Low and slow rather large jet, chris says prob military transport...argh... Cassandra was in middle of brushing on finish and couldn't quite figure out balancing being safe and not messing up the floor (if she left

213.31 flooring finish

• Thanks to chris for charging the ipod, cass has some tunes during more tedious brushing on final coat, on knees.
• Time: 6.25hrs

06/27/07 - Wednesday

Notes:

• FUD FUD FUD, yucky humidity, mega hot inside yurts. Terrible sleeping.
• Two helicopters: one midmorn when cass outside talking to chris, has to go in and close up yurt, second in afternoon and cass found out that it could be hotter, and is, inside connector. Very low and took long time to go over. Ugh.

213.31 flooring finish

• miserable work, cass hopes turns out ok as she's tired, messed up from copters/planes and its such tedious work making sure smooth and debris free
• Time: 5.75hrs

06/28/07 - Thursday

Notes:

• Still so humid. Helicopter.

213.31 flooring finish

• 30ft is finished!! 30ft is finished!!
• Time: 5hrs

06/29/07 - Friday

Notes:

• Cleared up and blue skies. Lots colder though, about 30degrees colder!
• C+C take a walk up top in morning to check out the finished floor. Woohoo! They try out the sound at center and do yoga two-person tree pose, facing out the one window with just trees, and no construction stuff.
• Darn low flying planes are numerous loud and annoying! They delay C+C's morning considerably.
• Chris was going to fit the "prep for landlord" task into reg Friday but is too much. He also had to get the tires fixed from last night's blow-out en route home...he had to change tire in Williamsville. Cass got ill from clothes.

213.31 flooring finish

• cass starts on 20' floor
• Time: 3.5hrs

288.07 Assemble Cart

• Chris assembles the unnamed new cart
• time: 1.5 hrs

06/30/07 - Saturday

Notes:

• Chris gone offsite doing prep landlord task until almost 5pm!
• C+C have a leisurely late "lunch" upon his return in SIPPEE, its first mealtime use. They debate calling it quits for the day versus getting work done and decide to hike up and do at least something. End up staying there til almost 10pm! Finish the flo

213.31 flooring finish

• cass continues on 20' floor
• Time: 2.75hrs

213.36 site cleanup

• whack growth along path while (unfortunately) under attack of the return of the black flies! Gosh darnit! What the heck are they doing back!?!?
• Time: 0.25hrs

202.03 Prep for Landlord visit: cleaning and gutters

• Chris burns waaaay too much time cleaning the house for the impending house-owner vist. Grrrrrrrrrr
• time: 10.25 hrs. grrrrrrrrrrr

320.30 Fix Floor Spotting

• This task is DONE!
• time: 2.75 hrs

213.31 Flooring finish

• C&C force themselves to head up to the MLA at 6:30 to at least close up and maybe work a bit. While checking out the complete 30' floor they discover it is quite slippery with socks. A bunch of sliding around ensues, including Chris dragging Cass arou
• time: n/a

226.34 Reopen GIPPEE

• Chris works on inbound water
• time 30 min