Unfortunately there's not too much to report at the house because of the rain. We were away all of last week and found out yesterday that the crew only worked 3 out of 5 days so progress was slow. Now it's raining a bit and that certainly slows down progress.

Tomorrow morning, I am meeting Mark at the Newburyport Building Department to submit our full building permit. The only thing that has been holding us up is the Appendix J, which is an energy audit form. Apparently this is something that is fairly easy for an architect that uses auto cad to complete because it's just about plugging figures into a computer program. Our Architect, however, is old school and hand drafted all of the blueprints. This leaves Mark and his trusty calculator to work it all out. He's working on it today.

The photo above, shows TJ our 20 year old tenant. He and his pal, Chip live in our small horse barn and belong to a hay farmer named Todd from West Newbury. We're enjoying getting to know these guys. They'll be around until the end of construction when we are hoping to move the barn to our neighbors yard.

Chip, the other horse did not like having his photo taken -- every time the camera came out he turned his back to us! Oh well.