slowly but surely...

we're getting there!

working just a day a week on the dome makes for slow going. tooooo slow for this impatient person. it is frustrating but i gotta keep it all in perspective. we are getting it close to the point where i can work on it myself - or at least hope i can.

over the weekend we put up the final 2 hexagon pieces. we had left those and went on to the pentagons since we knew those pieces in particular would be odd sized and we were out of full sheets of plywood from which to cut them. tweaking of the shell this way and that way made that particular hexagon more problematic than others. we were right - they were off in size - but now they are up! yay! ed is especially glad to be done with them - it means no more balancing on the extension ladder. at least until we shingle. we also got the top plywood pieces on the last pentagon. not a bad work day - it is looking more and more like a dome.

again, the forecast held a slim chance of rain so we didn't put all the plastic back up. yesterday it was to be in the upper 50s, partly cloudy, 10% chance of rain. i had been talking of a return to running and yesterday was going to be the day. ed emailed me in the morning and said it was great running weather. i replied and asked him how long it had been since he looked outside (the health room doesn't have any windows) - i told him it was quite windy and looked like it was going to snow. not long after, i stepped outside to ferocious looking skies, rain and HAIL! 10% chance, my ass. the return to running could wait one more day.