Too hot outside

July 19

Another day of 90+ temps and 80 degree dew point s. That ends up in a feels like temperature of 115 or there about. The construction season here so far has been disappointing. It has been either sunstroke weather- too hot to even work early in the morning- or raining and so muddy at the site that it is impossible to work. The crew who put in the sewer and water for the house and who work large construction projects indicated that they worked only 5 days in the entire month of June because of weather conditions. (We’ve done a little better than that but not by much!) It is even too hot to strip woodwork intended for the house as the remover tends to gum-up and not work well. Thankfully, I stripped a lot of it on the wet days so that Sam can sand it in the basement where it is cool. The weather doesn’t look too promising a week out either. A cool front is expected by Thursday that should lower the temps to the lower 90’s but the dew point will determine if we can do any outside work.

I did have some success in the locating of some limestone for the terracing and eventual landscaping around the house. An old student and friend discovered it for me, and it will be delivered in the late fall. We can only hope for a long dry autumn to play catch-up on the project. The goal is still to have the masonry walls up to the second floor before freeze-up, but even that may prove too ambitious to realize. Nature is teaching us patience!

Jim