Tennescenic

Well, the day didn’t start off so great. I went to the bank in Brentwood, but it isn’t open on Saturdays, so I had to go by the Franklin branch. The salesman wasn’t at the fireplace store, so I couldn’t get my stove ordered. But things improved once I got to the farm. I was able to quickly remove the flat front tractor tire with my new impact wrench and socket set. The equipment repair place sent me next door to the Co-op and they repaired the tire while I waited. Next I went to Big Box Liquidation and ordered the laminate flooring. Back at the farm I built a crude set of steps for the back door. The insulation guys came yesterday for their first phase, and we are getting inspected for that on Monday. So it does feel like we are moving in the right direction.

There have been so many delays and frustrations out at the farm over the past few weeks. Progress has really slowed and it is a little overwhelming. We will work hard to get things going in the right direction though. I am really hoping that we get all of our rough-in inspections completed this week. Maybe we can even get insulated. Then it will be a very intense couple of months as we race to be finished by Thanksgiving. Liz still has a lot of decisions to make and I’m worried that will cause some bottlenecks.

This morning I ordered our interior doors down in Columbia. I also need to order some more siding and all of our flooring. There are lots of other things to buy as well. I will be feeling a lot better once we are insulated and I can really begin doing most of the remaining work myself.