I’m way behind where I had hoped I’d be at this point.
Besides a few curve balls in this rebuild, I’ve had other things to attend to.
The Pain Clinic √. Not sure what they will prescribe. It’s not really why I went in. I do need them on occasion but I really don’t like them.
BUT, they have already put in a request to get me an Adjustable Bed…I received a message it was sent in their Patient Portal. I don’t know if that will do the trick, but I’m hoping it will. It is my bed that sent me to the pain clinic in the first place.
I did discuss Cannabis with the Doctor. His “personal opinion” is favorable. He asked me that IF I do decide to use Cannabis to please let him know.
MMJ Renewal took a good amount of time (hours and hours, I mean) to get through and $246+ (total, $114 to the Elevate Holistics, $132+ to the state - that includes Patient and Cultivator Licenses) BUT…
MMJ Renewal √ (filed, not yet approved)
I was receiving count down emails from the state. Titled 60 days out. Titled 45 days out. When it got to the 30 day point I got an email telling me the Renewal Window Was Closed. I never opened those other emails because I was going by their countdown in the title. That 60 day countdown included the minimum 30 days required for a easier renewal, I discovered after the fact…they need 30 days to get it done. I didn’t know the 60 days counted down to the window closing at 30 days. I don’t expect any trouble getting the renewal but…I probably should have opened at least one of the emails! 
On to the build! Again, I’m at least a week behind schedule! 
I had a bit of trouble with the pneumatic framing nailer. It slams them home on the face of the board but not toe-nailing. I started one stud and it was WAY OUT OF SQUARE, the board had a really bad twist in it. Once I had a few nails in it I put a clamp on it to force submission to square. It didn’t like that and I pretty much destroyed it! It double fired more that a few time, this is one example of that.
I returned to pre-drilling each end for 3 screws on each end.
Then puzzling over the new space. I can’t staple to the cement wall…I had to come up with something to staple to. They’re 1x2s painted all 4 sides because they were originally intended as Window Insulation Trim. The vertical blocks will allow me to put some force behind the stapler without distorting the Panda Film too much. I didn’t want to use 2x4 for that. I’m almost out of 2x4s. Knowing that my system is going to suck the heck out of any wall covering I put up, I had to support it in some way. That’'s all I could come up with. I hope it holds! 
Then, I didn’t notice until the other day that the loft joists are 12 inches on center You can see the joists above. I’m going to have to cut each piece of insulation that I put up there. I have 16 inch fiberglass insulation but I really don’t want to put any material up there that may be exposed to moisture. I’m going to try and put Rockwool/Mineral Wool throughout, ceiling and all 3 walls.
And, the South wall is 4x4s with 2x4s on their face. I’m going to have to build that out to some point that I can staple to. But, I also want to insulate that wall. Right now the 2x4s on their face are 24 inches on center. Will probably have to build that wall out as well just to properly insulate it.
I’ve been puzzling what I’m going to do because I wanted to insulate the ceiling and at least 2 walls before I put up the Panda Film. I wanted to have the Panda Film start at the floor and make the bend to the ceiling in one piece - the Panda Film is 10 foot wide. I could have covered much of the ceiling that way. Get them both covered at the same time.
I have decided to just Black/White from the floor to the ceiling and cut the rest off. I’ll use cut-off on the ceiling when I get to that point.
This is folded out and cut to about 18 feet. That’s enough to do from one side of the doorway (East wall), back across the cement wall (North wall) and the wall I just framed in, (West wall).
I still have to add a few staple blocking to the East wall. I have them cut already…just have to install them.
Insulation is on hold. I’m beyond broke at the moment.
I missed Spaghetti Sunday Will have to do it tomorrow.
BUT, I won’t miss out on Italian Ambrosia. I made some last night. I’ve never had Ambrosia with Mascarpone in it. I had never even heard of it before. It’s what I would have made had any store been open when we had Christmas Dinner (7 layer lasagna!).
I got the recipe from here…
I did add extra cherries and Mandarin orange slices.
Looks yummy! Gonna have some Ramen (it is “spaghetti”, sort of! :winky:), then dig in to the Italian Ambrosia.
Regards the build, I am pondering stacking my Vegetative buckets on top of my Flower buckets this go around. Since I plan to Root/Veg/Flower in the same space this go-round I’m puzzling out what it would take to stack them. Then just remove the top stack to get to the next lower stack.
Anybody ever heard such a thing?
Overripe melon on duty!
Any suggestions regarding framing the South wall to accept insulation or insulating the 12 inch on center ceiling joists would he awesome! I’m open!
Make it a great week, my friends!
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. I love the resaw for making beautiful book matched tabletops. Could only cut ~22 inches deep on it though. 
for the first time since I dried out for the Pain Clinic anticipating a piss test - a PICA 5. It is not what they did. They swabbed the inside of my mouth.
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), I looked up at that partial wall, the East wall, that I decided I had to rebuild? ---- It is part of the original build that had rungs on it TOO far apart as part of the system to get up to the loft 
