I finally had enough of swimming through cellulose insulation. So my brother-in-law Lee and I set up our own little Hooverville in the front yard with a giant shop vac designed for sucking up the blown in stuff. It had a loud gas engine and used a corrugated hose with an affinity for clogging that made the job interesting. But upon reclaiming about 90 percent of the intrusive mess, we called it good. Lots of scratches from the nails protruding up into the attic space from below and down from above but the result is that I can now see where things need to be addressed in the attic space.

Sometime prior to the day of suction, we were doing some partial demo in the kitchen and ran across some splendid, pink laminate hidden behind the droll back splash. It's continually informative to pull apart this little, owner-built house and after having uncovered the first two time capsules tucked within the wall cavities, it was quite amusing t o find this curious little detail buried in the kitchen. Given the half-baked nature of the relatively recent remodeling efforts, this discovery was a treat.

A final note:
Having fully recovered from Blog-Spam-Shock, I have reset the comments function on the site so that those with any interest in doing so may finally make their thoughts known.

Cheers,
Kurt

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