11/18-20/08 I went up to the property for 3 days: Tuesday through Thursday.

It was sunny when I arrived at 12:30. Bert and Ernie were right there to greet me. I started a fire in the wood stove to warm the cabin up while I was having lunch. After lunch, I went to work and rebuilt the dining room light fixture so that it now has a much longer chain. Then I hung the fixture from the box I had installed on the Grid B purlin last week.

Since I no longer needed the scaffold tower there, I disassembled the tower and erected another two-tier tower under the Grid D purlin so I could work on the light fixture for the living room. I finished installing wires 2 and 13, circuit breaker number 2, and wires 1 and 5 (see the diagram for Electrical Circuit 02).

On Wednesday morning, I built a fire in the stove, and the cabin warmed up quickly. I checked the wires I had installed or strung, and labeled them according to my circuit diagram. I decided to be very systematic about the wiring so as not to make any mistakes. It is easier to catch and correct them while still on paper. I decided to assign each separate conductor, except the ground wires, a unique number and tag each end of each wire with its number. That will give me plenty of cross checking opportunities as I connect things up. I also assigned a numerical ID to each receptacle box and a letter ID to each switch or junction box. The locations of these can be seen on the receptacle diagram and on the fixture diagram. The wire IDs appear on the individual circuit diagrams.

I strung wires 6 and 10 from the ceiling of the crawlspace, where they came out of the dining room column, through the floor joists, and over to a hole in the floor under box A. Then up through the hole into the box. I connected the wires in boxes A and B, screwed the bulbs into the dining room fixture, put the chimneys in the fixture, flipped the switch, and had the light working before lunch. I was very pleased with how it looked and I took a couple pictures of it.

After lunch, I started on the living room fixture, which matches the dining room fixture. The hardest part is chiseling the recess into the underside of the purlin while high up on a scaffold tower and hammering upside down. It was hard work, but by the end of the day, I had the box installed in the purlin,

On Thursday morning, I didn't build a fire in the stove because I was going to be working in the loft and it gets plenty warm up there even without a fire. I strung the wire (42, 43) from the living room fixture box, through the rafters, to the Grid E1 corner of the loft. Then using mostly an augur, and a saw, I enlarged the slot in the log corner that I will snake wires through between the floor and the ceiling. When the slot was ready, I strung the rest of the wire (42, 43) down through the corner into the loft floor, through the floor joists, and then down into the entry room wall to where the switch box K will be located. I get a real kick out of doing this kind of work so I felt good about what I had done this week. I left for home at 2:00.

11/21/08 Made detailed wiring plans with documents and diagrams.