This week a new crew came in to install plaster board on all the walls and ceilings. Plaster board is a type of drywall finished with a special paper designed to adhere to veneer-plaster. This provides a harder and smoother finish than traditional joint compound, ideal for wallpapering. The crew of three worked through a heat wave and left the rooms they finished looking like, ah, actual rooms!

Outside, carpenters continued siding and constructing the deck door overhangs, despite temperatures in the 90s, working in the shade of the building or under a tent. The Genie is gone so they used ladders and scaffolding to cover the back wall. They still have a ways to go. A different type of siding, wider boards to be painted a different color, will go below the deck. Another crew is painting those boards Granite grey at the shop.

As we wait for the house project to be completed, Nils and I continue with our property clean-up projects. On Saturday, we burned brush in the rain, getting rid of invasive bittersweet and Japanese knotweed, pruned branches of forsythia and apple trees, and old fence posts. We also donated a mysterious rusty motor to the Sweden Historical Society’s blacksmith shop, hoping someone can identify its original purpose.