5/2/19
Building summary: Today I got the chance to work on Jacobhouse both during the morning and the afternoon. Morning activities entailed attaching the following items to the ovenhood’s 6″ hose (order is respective, going from east to west – from the hood to the exhaust outlet): 6″-to-4″ adapter adhered via white silage bag tape, 5′ of 4″ dryer vent hose fastened via 4″ gator clamp, and a backdraft damper fastened via another 4″ gator clamp.
The exhaust fan will be seated in the upper righthand corner.
It was in the afternoon that I intended to work on the bathroom vent line, but to do that, I had to install the fan first, and that was not possible until I had the wall-closet (Wall #3) enclosed with plywood. To add to the sequence, I couldn’t put the plywood up quite yet, because there needed to be additional bracing. So, to put it shortly, I spent this afternoon working on and completing that lattermost task – the bracing.
(Last minute update:) The glass sliding doors were also delivered this evening just before Padre and I returned home.
Commentary: This morning was quite warm and humid with infrequent sprinklings of rain – a weather pattern reminiscent of summer except not quite as hot. I’ve begun to wonder how this spring’s and past winter’s uncharacteristic attributes (namely, the lack of frost) has affected the plant and insect life of this region. There are oddities manifesting that I’ve either not seen for quite some time or have never seen before. These strangenesses range from a prevalence of wild fruits to distorted plant leaves (found on nightshade*, tomato, hackberry trees, and as pictured below… pigweed) to excessive numbers of flies and startlingly large spiders to abnormal cattle ailments**.
My guess is that it is either a gall of some sort or a parasitic plant.
Final Note: Tomorrow, I plan on cutting the required piece of plywood for the top of the bathroom’s wall-closet, and once this is done, I will be jigsawing a hole for the exhaust fan to fit into and then perhaps wire / install the apparatus.
*Caused by numerous ants biting or injecting venom into the leaves.
**Unusually severe intestinal distress of viral/unknown origin.