Things are really starting to move again. With the last of inspections passed, the crew has begun drywalling. It's exciting to see walls go up and to start bringing over paint samples. It's also time to start making real choices about which of our "daydream" time plans actually get done in this phase, which have to be put off until "phase two" (or three...or forteen) and what turns out to just not be realistic enough to do (the "phase three" plan of rebuilding the tower that burned down about thirty years ago remains in tact!) Mago's determined to have us in move in by the end of October and at the pace he's been working - he certainly deserves it! Case in point: at the time of this writing it is 10 p.m., he just finished teaching classes at the studio and called to let me know he's headed over to the "church house" to put in an hour of work before bed.
The kitchen cabinets were delivered today and it took quite a bit of restraint for me to not open all the boxes to look at them! We're going to have to put the hurry on getting the kitchen mudded, textured and painted so we can install the cabinets and get the giant pile of boxes now in the sanctuary out of the way so they can finish the ceiling.
There was also a quick kitchen table meeting at home this afternoon to sketch out the design for the staircase. Back in June, Mago and I stumbled on a retailer in Boulder who was selling salvage from 100-200 year old Thai temples. The weathered, handcarved wood was so beautiful we couldn't resist buying several pieces even though we were uncertain at the time exactly what we'd do with them. We're planning on using the wood in the stair rail.
