interim carpentry

Still no update from the plumber. I guess he hasn't got his results back. These are supposed to take 1-3 working days in Finland, so I presume today is the third if he was tested on the weekend. Perhaps we'll hear something tomorrow. Tenant's stuff is all here as of yesterday, apparently, with a fair bit in the garage. She's still with her local best friend, the excellent chef (younger sister of MIL's bff, which we both missed until she told us and we were like OOOOH YOU KNOW THEY ACTUALLY LOOK ALIKE!!!).

A huge storm blew one of the gutters off the porch roof that overlooks our main door and our large tarp also disappeared, Wax thinks stolen or maybe accidentally taken to the dump by the contractor (we aren't sure quite when it disappeared, but I thought after then) since it was covering a bunch of construction debris that he took to the dump for us some weeks ago.

The thing is, we ordered a BUNCH of lumber to build a large wardrobe/closet upstairs and to board up the big doorway between the main house and addition (once we have water in the latter case obvs), and it was delivered today, and the actual boards are too long to really take inside, so without a tarp big enough to protect them we have to cut all of them now-ish, before it rains or whatever, so we can bring them inside.

We don't have a table saw or anything like that, just a circle saw, and we haven't used it very much so we don't exactly relish this - plus we don't have a good worktable or sawhorses to use while using the circle saw. We do need sawhorses, but as we don't have anywhere inside to keep them, we haven't got around to buying them yet. We'll need to jury rig something, AGAIN.

I prefer being distracted most of the time right now, as the outcome of the battle with fascism/nazism/mafia state now coming to a crisis with the US election most likely will remain uncertain for some time. I'll have to check [Twitter] for updates repeatedly, but I would rather limit it to short informational doses. So in that respect, having a ton of circle sawing to do without adequate equipment is actually... kinda good? I guess? But that's not enough to make me really relish the prospect. The circle saw is big and powerful. When it's in your hands, you can feel that it could run away and wreak destruction at any point, rather like a horse that's, you know, made of diamond-edge shark teeth... you know what, I'm stopping with that metaphor now, but the point is, circle saws are dangerous power tools that it's important to use correctly and I am reasonably cautious of it.

it's POURING rain

So we had to drag all the long planks inside so we can cut them... in the entry hall. We can try and get on with sawing in there, I guess.

We drove to the carpentry mill place where we ordered our shipment of lumber and it's such a pleasant spot. It must be lovely to work there. Both the employees we saw were bald with little goat beards, lol. And we found out who to call to change our locks! (We also need a bunch of new keys to go with them.) Tomorrow perhaps. Wax thinks it's not that urgent but her key is the one we kept because we only had two left after all the contractors didn't return the ones we gave them (or rather Wax's mom gave them so we don't even know how many they have) and the tenant ALSO only has one, so she needs a couple of spares and we have to keep a spare of hers and then we also have to change our side's lock and buy all new keys cut for it. And yes, we DO go everywhere together, but if I can't unlock the door, I'm frequently left outside in the cold and/or wet and/or carrying bags that are heavy for me (she wouldn't find them heavy usually) while Wax is lost in thought or doing something else that it's suddenly occurred to her to do instead of unlocking the door and going inside.