Today was the first day of our three week Nashville adventure. I arrived right at six and my dad shortly after. It was not a productive morning. We needed a broom but Dollar General was closed and Kroger didn’t have any. I went back out to Walmart later for one. I also went back to Kroger for ice and drinks, then went to visit my sister nearby while we were waiting on the cabinets to be delivered. The first load came right at noon. It was a lot, and about an hour later they brought the balance. We started assembling them immediately. They went together pretty easily, which is good, since I just calculated that we have a total of 92 units to assemble. I think they look nice. We will put the same cabinets in the farm house. Tomorrow the flooring is getting delivered and they are going to put the proper amount in each room, which will help speed things up. It was rather hot today but running the big fan helped keep things fairly comfortable. Having to load and unload my tools every day is going to be a bit of a pain, but that beats them getting stolen. I packed up and left a little before seven this evening. Hopefully tomorrow I will work from about six in the morning until eight in the evening. We really need to crank through this.

Last night after the greenway I drove over to the university farm and attempted some star trail pictures. It’ll be interesting to see how they turned out. There were a few clouds, but tons of stars, as it was close to the new moon. A number of cars drove by, so I’ll have to remove those frames from the sequence. I think the camera ran for about an hour and a half.

We hit the road around seven this morning and took the highway off the mountain, the interstate to Beech Grove, then the back roads to the farm. It wasn’t too hot when we arrived. We worked on the corner trim for a little while, then my dad caulked and I cleaned up and packed the tools we are going to need up in Nashville.

And that is the vacation…working for three weeks at his project up by the Gulch. We are going to put down laminate flooring, assemble and install cabinets, and install trim. Hopefully we can get all of that done in three weeks. It was pretty frustrating not to finish the siding on the house, but I’m not dwelling on it. It’ll be waiting for us in three weeks.

In many ways it’ll be nice to have a break from the house, even if it is with another construction project. Doing the siding in the hot summer sun was a real beat down. It’ll also be nice to have less of a drive every day. If I leave before traffic picks up in the morning it should only take me about twenty minutes. In the evenings I’ll need to either leave before three or after seven.

I’m back at the condo now and am looking forward to relaxing this afternoon and tomorrow. Hopefully we will go on a walk once it cools down this evening.