In the last week, we’ve made a fair amount of progress in getting drywall on the walls. This is despite the chronic crew problems we’ve had. Johnny, by far our best worker, has been hunting out at the Floe Edge now since our Floe Edge trip. Not that I begrudge him the holiday, he’s been working since we started, but we could sure use him right now. Both Dave, and Iago (who’s been working about two weeks – I haven’t even posted the Crew Stories about him yet) never showed up since pay day last week. No word, nothing.
So we hired two more fellows, one of who worked for a day and a half before he never showed up again, apparently waking up in the mornings isn’t his strong suit. So we hired another guy to start yesterday. He showed but the other new guy didn’t. Sigh, we’ve got to get this building finished so we can get on with the business.
But like I said, we’ve made pretty good progress on the walls, notwithstanding not having a crew. We have about one third of the board on the walls.
One of the rooms even got a coat of primer on it yesterday.
Primer. An oil based primer. For some reason, everyone, Gary included (in fact it’s all his fault, we blindly follow whatever he says), thought it was latex. It smelled like oil based, plus some other hints (like saying what it was on the label), but we all just went along, believing it was latex. Ali, the newest member of the crew (There have been so many "New Guys" it is starting to get confusing) washed up the rollers and was covered in paint from elbows to finger tips. He was looking for some solvent to clean up with… "Don’t worry," says Gary, "it’s Latex, you can wash up with water at home." Poor guy is probably still white.
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We had indian curry this evening. hope you are all fine – would have ben nice if Sandy was also here!!!
Cheers!