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The Third Post of the Day (Attic, revisited)

We got the wall up. We did it in sections. Four 10 foot sections. We eyeballed it and I think we’re within an inch of being perfectly square. I can take that.

The picture makes it look the wall isn’t perfectly straight up and down, but it is. We haven’t nailed [...]

Later in the day… (the Attic, part 2)

Turns out when you nail forty feet of wall together, it takes more than two unskilled people to lift the wall up.

So, now I have forty feet of wall framed out, but have to figure out how to get it in the upright position. I’ll figure it out, probably with the Dan Fraley hotline. [...]

Attic

Colleen’s in Cleveland, so I’ve been upstairs with dad working on the attic. We have half of the wall I need to build done.

The next in a series of conversations…

She walks up to Colleen this time and says, “Have you seen my dad?” To which Colleen replies, “I don’t know. What’s he look like?” Without missing a beat, Violet responds, “He’s got black hair and crazy eyes.”

We went to the park the other day, in between the marathon sewing sessions Colleen [...]

As Colleen is working,

Violet walks across the room to where I am sitting. Looks at me quizzically, and says, “Have you seen my mother? She has curly hair.”