Day 44 - Saturday, June 29

For the past couple days we have had a drywall guy that comes in after the hanging is done and starts taping and mudding over nails and screws. He will work over the course of a week or so doing his part. Upon taping the ceiling in the great room, it became very evident we had a sagging truss which was leaving a very noticeable bulge in our ceiling. This morning I went down and with the help of the drywall guy, we managed to raise the truss up to make the bulge much less noticeable. He propped the ceiling from below and I was the sap that crawled up in the attic (of course they just blew the insulation yesterday morning to make it a real pain) and using a 2x6, we braced the the truss to keep it lifted. Seemed to work.

Later, my excavator came and did a few things. One of which was scraping mud from yet another downpour off the main road. After he left, I had the pleasure of watching what he had done fail when - you guessed it - yet another downpour blew through. Seems like a daily event down there. So out I went in the rain with my mattock and shovel to manually divert the diversion ditch my excavator had tried to make. Not his fault. Just merciless rain for weeks and weeks.