There have been incremental fixes and finishes happening over the last month. In the construction industry, we would say the project has reached "Substantial Completion for Beneficial Occupancy." Which means you can use it for its intended purpose. What we're doing now would be considered "punch list" items. I'm getting the feeling this could go on for a long time. In other words, we will never be done.
Nevertheless, L continues to work on door and window trims and fine-tuning much of the finish work. Today, he was THIS close to finishing the trim on the French door, only to find out the last piece did not quite fit. This will need final paint and the final piece of trim, but it looks very good. I should get better pix than this, which was at dusk and so hard to gauge light value with the camera.
The contrast and workmanship is very clear on the close-up shot. I am loving the way these dark trimmed bits make the doors and windows POP.
The rain chain has been completed and attached to barrel. L chose the lotus shaped rain cups and I think it works very well.
It seemed that as soon as we put up the rain chain, it was tested. With buckets of rain. Buckets. One might even say, barrels. The chain was whipping around in the wind so much, L had to find a way to secure it vertically.
I thought this would be awkward, but it's about 7 feet up so I don't even see it. Since these pix were taken, L has planted some sweet potato vines in the cutout at top of barrel. Hopefully, they will grow down and around the barrel.
That's all for this report. It might be a while before there's another.
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