Home Improvement, Part 2

What will eventually be walls are taking shape.

All of the meteorologists in the area completely blew the forecast for today. It was predicted we would get well over 12 inches of snow. Instead we got a lot of rain and eventually a dusting of snow.

But that's ok -- we got the best of both worlds out of the deal. Not only did we not have to cope with any snow, the concern that there would be snow got our contractors to come. As I mentioned before, the work on our basement wasn't supposed to start until the spring. But they dropped some materials off a few weeks ago and said they would come to our house if they had a job outside and couldn't work because of the weather.

They started framing the walls today. They also moved around some wires so that we could still have access to them once the room is finished. In the process they discovered for us that there was an extremely simple fix for the lamp post in front of our house, which hasn't worked for years, and solved the mystery of the switch in our dining room that's never seemed to go to anything (everyone with an older house has one of those). It turns out the switch goes to the aforementioned lamp post.

The workers will return tomorrow.