A ceiling! And share requests.

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We have a ceiling! Well, the start of one, anyway.  what you're looking at there is the herringbone ceiling in what will be my kitchen (at long last, a kitchen again!) in the background, and what can be a dining area, of the extended living room in the foreground.

It's all tarped right now, of course. Storm systems moving through.

The guys were only able to work an hour yesterday, thanks to the storm, so even though they weren't originally going to work tomorrow, they're coming back bright an early to pick up some hours and make some progress on the ceiling. That's about a third of the house you see there, so they've got about twice that much yet to go. It will probably be finished early next week, at which point they move to framing in the upper level.

That will cost. We're also shelling out for a compressor tomorrow; the guys had been using their own to power the nail guns and so forth, but it gave up the ghost yesterday, so Wings hauled his old one out. It seemed to work fine yesterday; then today, it nearly blew the circuitry here before it keeled over and died, too. So, another $500 or so out the door first thing in the morning for that. It's a good thing to have around here, and Wings will get plenty of use out of it even after the house is finished, but it's one of those things we weren't expecting to have to divert funds toward right now.

So. Shares are needed, as always. Daily. Shares of our YouCaring page via the widgets provided, especially the widget code from the purple box at lower right, which gives you this:

Shares of Wings's site, which generates the sales we need to pay daily expenses, AND to fund construction — and, at the moment, to buy a new compressor. And shares of my beloved kishik's diary for us at the GOS, along with T&Ring it. Some generous soul has offered a $150 match by way of the diary, and we've already received $20 toward it; if we raise $150, it becomes $300.

We have a lot going on here this weekend: getting the hay in once it dries (baled late yesterday, and it got rained on overnight); finishing up several orders (that would be Wings, not me, although I'll need to do the packing and shipping when complete); some work that needs to be done on the gallery; two or three other projects that have longer deadlines but have had to be back-burnered for too long; and about six other things that I had in mind when I started this sentence that are now ::poof:: gone from my mind. I'll be slogging away at it all, trying to get caught up as fast as can, on thank-yous as on everything else. In the meantime, many, many thanks to everyone for helping us get to this point. Next week, you'll see some drastic changes in the look of place, and things will move VERY fast.



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