Sooo much has happened!

Pipes gone, chimney gone, vents on the main floor in. Mark and side-kick Bill have been making all sorts of riotous noise in the basement. They had to remove the old yucky particle board ceiling which they told me was full of mouse poop. Luckily they did that the day BEFORE the dumpster left. The basement has never looked cleaner. There are no cobwebs. Pretty amazing really, since our 120 year old basement was the center of the cobweb universe. They are moving floor supports around to make room for the duct work. The duct work looks not at all as I expected it to. It is insulated flexible fiberglass. There is a lot of banging, drilling, sawing and hammering inside the house, while outside there is the constant drone and beeping of the backhoe. Robin is mastering the backhoe. They've completed 2 trenches- each 120 feet long, 5 feel deep and 3 feet wide, filled with a lattice work of pipe, and then carefully back filled. He cut through the invisible fence this morning, but managed to find the break and repair it. Lap is out there (for hours now) directing the bucket, because Robin can't see what he's doing.

But I get ahead of myself. Check out the pictures to see the process of trenching, and piping, and our hard-working guys: camera-shy Mark and smiling Bill.