Homework!

It hasn't all been fun and games in our all-too-brief visit here in St Charles. Melinda's sister Maj has done a lot of work on the house in our absence, almost to the point where she was asked to "save some stuff for us"! Recent work has concentrated on the "guest room", which needed the ceiling removed to reinforce the roof supports. Maj doesn't do electrical work, but Melinda does, so we've been wiring in new outlets, a ceiling light with hardware for an anticipated fan, and reconnecting power to the closet and other house outlets beyond. A complicating factor is that we are moving one of the walls over 2 feet, so we are leaving enough cable so we don't need to do any other rewiring then.


The guest room used to be an external porch that was enclosed at some time in the past. You can see in this shot the white upright posts that were original roof supports on the porch. Melinda is pretty fearless with her wiring skills - checks the book occasionally, but does good work. I think the girls' plan is to get a real electrician to split the circuit that goes to the back of the house with the stuff we are adding, since we have 3+ rooms on the one circuit...

Both she and Roger are leaving today, Melinda back to Tucson to work, and Roger on to his conference in South Bend, Indiana. I'm staying a few more days working on the house some - Maj says I'm putting in insulation! Towards the end of the weekend I'll swing through Iowa visiting family once again, then head towards Dallas, where Melinda will rejoin me for the return swing through Texas and visits with more friends and relatives. Back to Tucson about the 22nd...