Stella had nothin on Steve!

Last Wednesday evening Joel and I had plans to drive down to Emerald Isle, NC for a long weekend getaway.  Then came winter storm Stella who dumped over 2 feet of snow on the whole northeast over the course of one day, Tuesday.  She was predicted to continue on into Wednesday, so we moved up our departure time during her lull, which was in the wee hours of the morning.  Before we left, Joel plowed out the house so Steve could get to work if he so desired.  He showed up!  He took this picture which shows the fresh blanket (or should we call it a down comforter?) of snow on the roof right outside our bedroom window.

We are back now, and Steve asked if I could come up to the house yesterday as he and the crew had some questions.  So exciting to see all that was accomplished in our absence!  Mark continues to put in switches and electrical boxes all over the house.  Quite a task and done so efficiently and quickly.  He ran into some issues with lack of space in the upstairs bathrooms, so instead of installing vent/heat/and light units we decided to do only light and vent and find a heat source elsewhere...perhaps in the floor?  Lenny was also "in the house."  The new chimney side and front walls that he is creating are spectacular!  He also shored up all the bricks inside the flue as far up as he could reach so that if down the road Joel and I decide to fix the flue from the roof down we will be able to have real fires.  I requested that we keep the original brick in place on the south side of the chimney and expose it for all to see.  Steve has finished framing out our bedroom and master bath windows.  Things are really moving along:)