North Glenora Reno

For the third installment of the month that is September in our household, we made some really great progress…Well, not so much we but progress none the less.

By end of day Wednesday, we had passed both our plumbing rough-in inspection and our electrical rough-in inspection. This is huge because it meant that I could do something that i have been waiting to do for week and I may even mean months. I went out to the garage and hauled in a few bales of INSULATION and actually got to place some in the walls!! I can hardly contain my excitement. As I have said before, you live in my world and things like insulation are virtually mind blowing (thank goodness I went back to work and expanded my world a bit, eh?).

R did the final step in fully installing the windows and I then spray foamed the gaps. I’m sure it became warmer in that room the second I did that, well it helped a bit. Last night, as R finished up with the windows, K came over and help me haul bag and bags of INSULATION into the house.

Today, insulating began in earnest. We now have nearly all of the exterior walls insulated as well as most of the interior ones. R’s dad came today and helped make the job go much much faster. Despite my love of said insulation, I spent much of my day simply cleaning the house and trying to keep it at some livable level. At times we look around and can’t really believe that we are living through this, a vacuumed living room seems to help, me at least, a bit.

Tomorrow we head out to the garage to reclaim the space within for our vehicles. The frost we had to scrape off of our windows on Thursday morning was a harsh reminder of the winter to come.