Board meetings

We worker bees had a palaver yesterday when the front of the old section of the south wall was sided (the part under the "tails" on the old eaves), and counted up our remaining cedar planks, and tried to figure a place for a natural break, to switch to HardiPlank. . . . And decided to go for it: Do the whole darn wall in cedar, and make the historic commission very happy indeed.

Of course I checked to make sure Ref didn't outvote the majority -- and he didn't. (As I've said more than once to subcontractors, I may be the owner, but Ref's the boss.) When I went out to visit today, he'd just finished 40 laps of the hospital halls.

So, between rain showers, the guys kept going. You can see in the second picture that there are a relatively few square feet left to go, and the guys are likely to pick the materials up tomorrow or Monday at a lumberyard on Big Pine where Juan used to work.

If you look carefully in the second picture, you can also see how the wood aligns with the HardiPlank at the corner, line for line. Both are on 6-inch laps, and I don't think you'd ever guess that they're slightly different thicknesses.