S/V Good Morning Vietnam: While there is no where to go...

Hi all,
My last post announced my re-employment but as you might have guessed with the current state of affairs I have been furloughed. Actually it's much more about the price of oil than Covid-19. Of course the price of oil might not be as low without Covid-19 but the price war between Russia and Saudia Arabia was the main factor.

With lots of time on my hands again Susan and I are back working on the house. Susan was working on it while I was working but some things really need two people. So here's an update on what we've gotten accomplished.

From the beginning our vision of the exterior of the house was board and batten. Battens are finally going up and it's making, in our opinion, a big difference on the way the house looks.

Here's the exterior as it has been for the last year

Now, with battens

We also have finally started putting wood flooring down in the great room and dining area. The flooring is out of the building we paid $200 for a year or more ago. Once it is down we'll sand it and refinish it. Putting it down has been realitively easy (thanks Tony for the floor nailer!) it's the getting the nails out and all the 90 year old dirt gone so the tongues will go in the grooves that takes all the time. We now have almost half of the flooring down.

The first furring strips going down

The first six rows of flooring down

Besides working on the house we have accomplished a few other things.

We made a very fast trip to Atlanta in order to get the last of Susan's possessions. We worked out we were gone for about 38 hours, 22 of those were spent driving on I-20. A big thanks to our friends Mark and Tammy that not only gave us a place to stay but also helped us load the trailer. In the rain.

While Susan has done this before, I wanted to try my hand at beekeeping. We've been going to local beekeepers meetings (until they, like everything else, were canceled) and ordered two colonies. They are here and appear to be thriving.