Moved In and Back At It

Last weekend and this week was spent pretty much clearing snow off the frame once again and getting things together and settled in up here.

Last weekend we missed the better part of a snow storm but managed to pick up a couple of inches of snow. So as what has become the usual weekend ritual we spent a good part of last Saturday morning clearing off the frame. We ended up doing a few small things but not really accomplishing anything too major.

I started work up in Williams on Tuesday of this past week, still with the same company just a different location. From what I can tell I am really going to like it here. We are required to learn how to repel due to the fact that there is work from time to time that needs to be done in the Grand Canyon. So part of this past week was spent getting fitted for repel gear and learning the proper way of doing it.

Our plans are to hopefully spend a day up at the Canyon this spring patrolling the cable that feeds Phantom Ranch at the base of the Canyon. This will require us to repel down the Canyon walls to visually inspect the cable. Then we are helicoptered out once our job is complete.

This weekend my wife came up Friday evening so we got started early Saturday morning. I also managed to arrange hook up of high speed internet via satellite dish.

The tech arrived late Saturday morning to hook it up for us. We mounted the dish on the garage so as to keep it stable and out of site. The whole hook up took about three hours and we were on line. I can't really complain about the speed either. We went with the lowest speed they offered and I would say it is comparable to the high speed internet service in the valley.

This somewhat cut into our work on the house but well worth it. I figured either television or internet connection and internet connection won out. There just isn't much on TV worth watching anymore.

We went to work on the north side dormer that faces east. The reason for this was so that we could work from left to right on the front of the house and leave ourselves easy access into the house on the west side. It was pretty much like the south dormer except that this one will only require 3 panels.

The front should be a real challenge so I am anxious to get started on it, so I wanted to get this face done and be able to finish the corner and work our way across the front. I am thinking that it will move rather slowly due to the fact that there will be a lot of cutting on the panels prior to being installed.

More than likely we will work our way around the corner and finish the north side of the great room first though.

We were fortunate this weekend; we had great weather for working. We have melted a good part of the snow and had highs today approaching 50 degrees. Maybe Spring is just around the corner???