Lights!

Exciting times for our project! With painters largely done, the electrical and plumbing folks have moved in to begin all of their final work. It’s been fun to see the light and plumbing fixtures that were chosen two years ago (Thanks Marita & Krysta!) finally going in. AND, after several years of design work, six months trying to get a permit and so far two full years of construction we’re beginning to truly see the light at the end of the tunnel. Overall the interior is looking really good which is quite exciting.

Pedro has mostly finished all of the trim on the back porch.

Our daughter-in-law has been spoiling us with her cooking. Like pannenkoekens!

A bit of mid April snow.  Fortunately this April was nothing like the past two that each saw significant snowstorms.

Breezeway and Mudroom. The far door is goes to the garage.

Light fixture in The Crossroads where the north<>south and east<>west hallways meet. Standing here you can see in every direction (so long as the door to the garage is open).

Entry Foyer

Covid brings out all kinds of strange people and fashion. Our friend and pastor Sid. We were supposed to be hosting his 50th wedding anniversary in June but Covid has other plans. He’s an extreme extrovert so this whole social isolation / social distancing thing is not for him.

Marble Hearth

My brother Milton – The Jolly Green Monster!

Pedro finished the north side of the porch. As with all that Pedro does it turned out well.

Upper level laundry

Middle guest room. 

Loft.

Breezeway looking west through The Crossroads on to the porch.

We’ve had difficulty getting Comcast to install and bury a cable so when they were supposed to show up on a recent Saturday I decided to work here and wait for them to make sure that the work got done. This was the 5th time that they didn’t show up.

Master

Testing the core network components for the new place. Netgate 3100 Firewall (UDMP firewall is not too great), Ubiquity UDM Pro, Ubiquity Switch Pro 24, a variety of Ubiquity AP-HD’s and Synology RS3618 server. I’ve used Ubiquity AP’s for a while and they work quite well. I’ve typically used Cisco for switching but for a number of reasons, primariy cost but also it’s easier to manage a single vendor or in this can an all Ubiquity network, we’re giving it a shot. So far so good. Mostly. The UDMP was released too soon and we’ve gone through some growing pains. Thanks to UI-Glenn for a lot of patient assistance to some very frustrated customers.

The crew from Topo are back at it after a long winter.

And… Caught up through 30 April!