Hungry Hungry Caterpillars and Other Delays

This last week was a bit disappointing. We had a list of a few things that we wanted to accomplish on our own and were hoping to get the drywall mudding wrapped up and the drywallers out of the house.

The drywallers keep giving us different dates for when they'll be done. Each day they keep adding on a day to when they think they'll be done. It is so frustrating. We would rather they were honest with us so that we could schedule things accordingly. Our painter finally just showed up and told them that they had to be done by the 18th because that's when he was starting. Hopefully they stick to that or I'll be whipping out the paint brush because our painter is gone on holidays for two weeks after that.

The drywallers had originally told us that it would take them two weeks to do all the upper floors. By the time they are done it will be a month. I find this ridiculous. My BIL is building a house that is a bit more than half the size of ours and it took their drywallers one week to do their whole house.

Unfortunately we also have day jobs so we can't dedicate all of our time to working on the house. We are self employed so we have some flexibility as to when we can work on the house and when we need to work. Sometimes our clients have to come first though. This last week was pretty much spent getting caught up on work. We did get started on prepping the slab in the garage though:

We had a few other things that we wanted to get crossed off the list this week but it just didn't happen. We got the materials delivered so when we aren't so busy with work we'll be ready to get back to work on the house! 

The rest of the work on the house this week was worm control. They seem to be getting worse. They are getting close to being done their feeding stage (that and there's no leaves left for them to eat) so they are migrating towards the house and pretty much everywhere else. Our garage doors aren't on yet so they were started to climb the walls in there and on the ceiling. They are climbing all over our camper, in the hubcaps and on the tires of our vehicles, on us if we stand still too long. They are EVERYWHERE. So gross. 

Here is a before and after of the trees in our yard. The left picture was taken right when we first started to notice them. The one on the right was just taken today. 

It makes me so sad. I can't wait until the leaves all grow back and we can forget about these disgusting creatures.