2/22/19:
Building summary: Today was more or less a planning day, but I did still get a few things done. First off, I was able to fasten down the remainder of yesterday’s floorboards. This was followed by scraping more of the mysterious goo/paste off of the ceiling*, and then by planning, measuring, and marking boards that will be used to fortify and straighten the closet-wall’s 2x4s.
Commentary: The first thing I saw when I arrived at the worksite this morning was a newborn Wagyu calf dashing about the fenced-in yard of Jacobhouse. The tiny heifer was wet from the womb (and from being licked up by her mother), yet she was still somehow managing to calvort** about in the tall grass surrounding my future home. As for the calf’s mother, she was slightly distressed because there is an electric fence around Jacobhouse’s yard. To solve all this, I went in and pushed the Wagyu spawnling out to ‘ma’. Troll that she was, though, the calf just darted right back in. I think I ended up having to push that little thing out of the worksite three or four times today.
There were, of course, normal shenanigans in Jacobhouse, too – most of which were stated above in the summary. To add to my notes, though, I should also say I created a list of parts that I will need for continuing the building process; that, and I researched the hand-pump well like I said I would in the prior post. It turns out that the materials for putting in a such an apparatus add up to be about $400.00. First, there is the pump, well-point, 6 couplings, and a hammering cap (conveniently put together into a kit here) and then there are the 5 pieces of 1 ¼” galvanized metal pipe. It actually took me quite a while to find all those parts, so that’s why I included them as the second highlight.
Final Note: Tomorrow morning will likely be dedicated to cutting, putting together, and fastening in the simple ‘closet-sturdier’ I drew up today.
*Padre and I now believe that, due to the way those pieces of ‘goop’ corroded small spots on Jacobhouse’s ceiling, they were drips of chlorine remaining from one of the times that the container was washed before it arrived here.
**Cavorting, it may have been, but when it comes to Wagyu calves, grace is quite lacking.