The wood furnace is connected and ready to go.

October 30, 2018 - Tuesday

43 degrees/cloudy/calm winds

Pentoga Road

I'm writing tonight since I'll be leaving the house bright and early in the morning. I'll be the PE teacher at Florence High and Elementary schools for the next three days. 

I left for town first thing this morning to purchase the necessary duct work needed to hook up the wood furnace.

The rest of the day was spent muttering, measuring, and cutting.

Seemed a shame to cut a hole in a perfectly good roof

I thought cutting a hole through the wall of the barn would be fairly straight forward. It didn't happen that way.

The first attempt found a cross brace running between the shop wall and the wall that I didn't know existed.

The second hole was cut directly into a stud. I'd mismeasured and couldn't have been more wrong had I tried.

It's said three's a charm. Finally, a hole was cut and the duct was pushed through.

By afternoon's end, I had half the shop outside. There were tools and pieces of duct work all over the place.

Other than cleaning out the trap under the bathroom sink, installing the ductwork was the sum total of day. 

I was drilling a hole a bit earlier, using a very small bit, and managed to ram the bit into the meat of my right index finger right down to the fingernail underneath. Hurt? You bet. The top half of the finger is swollen tonight and I can feel my heart beat in the top joint.

Just call me Grace.

As mentioned earlier, I'll be up and out of here early in the morning. Sargie closes Wednesday night which means we'll meet each other coming and going.

I'll be running the inside duct work along the wall in the next few days

It's time to head to bed. As in the old days, I'll lay out my school clothes tonight to help save a few minutes getting dressed in the morning.

Old habits die hard.

After all, a man's work is never done.

So are the tales from Pentoga Road...