continued progress, although it appears slight

We were out of town most of the week and progress was limited.

The hardwood floors were installed and will be sanded and finished once the air conditioning has run for a week. The power company, who was to run the new power line from the street on Tuesday, finally showed up on Friday and installed the conduit but not the wire. Hopefully they will return next week to pull the wire and set the meter although no promises were made. More of the kitchen cabinets were installed although we are waiting on additional cabinet parts before the installation can be completed.

The driveway is going to be a challenge. The power company was adamant it would only run power to the new house if they could install in a new conduit for the wire. This would have required removing more trees, which we did not want. However, the old driveway was in sad shape before the fire and even worse shape after the concrete trucks and lumber trucks and sheetrock trucks so we agreed to remove it, let the power company bury their new conduit, and then replace the driveway. With a promised installation date of last Tuesday, we removed the driveway the Thursday and Friday before. Now it has rained and rain is forecast for most of this week which is turning the red clay to gooey mud, which will make it very difficult to get a concrete truck up the hill. So this may be an issue.

Hopefully, this week we can get the power wires run to the house and the power on so the A/C can start running so the floors can be sanded and finished the following week. In addition, the exterior painters expect to start.