Summer Recap: Where Do I Continue?

Even more weeks and months have passed since a real update on life here on the prairie. For the beginning of catching up, see my June 28th post: Where Do I Start?

Today I will attempt another pictorial overview of this intense summer.





Near the end of June we moved out of the house again for several days while our attics and basement were spray-foamed with a special, low-VOC product developed for chemically sensitive people like us: Ultra-Pure SPF Systems.



The spray-foam crew was amazing, plus a couple of men from the development and distribution branches of the company arrived from PA and TX to help with quality control and documentation on this specialty project. See a short video describing this product with some footage from our project HERE.



These knowledgeable guys love their jobs!



While the place was throbbing with machinery, the distributor interviewed Elsa and me to hopefully be of help to others with chronic illness who are in the process of rebuilding their homes (and lives). That interview is still to be released.



After coming back for more air samples the next morning, the foam-developer's assistant (with a PhD in the science side of the job) gave us a little piano recital by memory on my 100 year old Baldwin.



Then after yet another day of highly ventilating the basement, the local foam-company owner came back to pick up his high-powered fans and make sure we were doing okay.



He was thrilled that even Elsa and I could be in the basement by the new foam!



Now Dad has to hook up an air-exchanger to keep moisture from building up in our well-insulated house.



We moved back into the house in time for Dad's birthday a week later. (Though Elsa and I still slept in the camper until our bedroom could get a deep cleaning.

Dad's birthday always includes garden tours.

Summer recap to be continued...