Freakishly Happy

Hey!
Our subflooring and insulation was delivered today! Very exciting!

We finished up with the auto paint/rust protector on the inside last night around 9pm. It looks all slick and black in there, sort of the like an inverted beetle. It looks really nice, but even so, I am looking very much forward to covering it up.

We got all of the windows back in a few days ago, complete with new weather stripping. We spent about an hour this afternoon, enjoying the bright azure sky and sunshine while caulking the bottoms of the windows on the outside of the bus.

Spring has come to Vermont. There are daffodils everywhere, like little bursts of sunshine popping up from the ground. The trees have gone from completely barren last week, to that wonderful state of misty-green buds early this week, to tiny dark green leaves by weeks end. It’s been quite a week!

We scavenged two steel air conditioner covers from A/Cs that were bound for the dump, and are planning on cutting sections out of them to patch the holes in our floor. The covers also have vents in them, which will be useful later on when we build battery and propane bays.

Things are very exciting and are moving right along! I skipped out to meet the delivery guy today when he brought our plywood, etc. As we were unloading the truck he asked if this was my first building project, and I told him that indeed it was. He chuckled and said he could tell.

Unfortunately the bus cam is still not working. Well, let me re-phrase, it’s working but it’s not uploading to the site. Also, the site hasn’t been allowing me to update photos either! It’s quite a catastrophe of minimal proportions! Hopefully soon we will be able to link our flickr.com site with our site so that you can actually see some photos. They’re worth a thousand words I hear. …

Tonight we went and hobnobbed with some members of the Progressive Party of Vermont. A store-friend of ours (when you live at a store you have two classifications of friends… strange but true) had a gathering to meet Anthony Pollina, (http://www.anthonypollina.com/) who is running to be the next governor of Vermont. Vermont is such a unique state in that the government is so accessible to the people. There were no TV crews, no secret service guys, and no fanfare of any kind; he was just a an average guy talking about his ideas. It was really refreshing; especially after the Obama rally we went to last year. I know that those are not on the same scale: one running for small state office, one running for president of the United States, but in some sense it seems like it should be similar. Why does the presidential race have to be so convoluted and well… political? Anyway, enough of that tangent…

So, tomorrow is going to be a work day, so I best get to bed.
Good night!