Back at the house, the guys were busy cutting holes in our ceilings and installing the PVC pipe that will service the sprinkler system. Learning so much in this process, not least of which is that the electricians should always go last! The plumbers make such huge holes for their pipes that the electricians can skip all the Swiss Cheese holes and just run their little teeny wires through the plumbing holes. The plumber actually asked me, "Who's running this job? You or your GC?" Ha! Funny! I have a GC so I don't have to run this job ... looks like there is some confusion on this front ...
Jack also met with another structural engineer today and we decided to take the chimney out due to it's failing mortar and overall uselessness. Two weeks ago, we made the decision to leave it in so the GC framed around it and the plumber got the rough plumbing worked out and now that we've decided to take it out, we have to undo all that. I think the most frustrating part of this process is the forward and back. We are so over our head on this -- we are just making mistake after mistake after mistake. Expensive, time consuming, frustrating.
Since our sprinklers put us back a couple of weeks, we are going to move out of Shady and into PODS since the house won't be ready to move right into. Then it will be a few weeks of house sitting and sofa surfing. Hoping that we will be walking to school on the first day from our new house. Time will tell!
All of that said, a few days in LA with Laura provided a visceral reminder of just how very lucky we are. These teeny, tiny, insignificant set backs are barely a speck in the grand scheme of things. Today, I'm practicing gratitude.
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