This week was crazy schedule-wise anyway.  I spent the whole week in Seattle on business and have to fly back to Seattle tomorrow.  So we only planned on working on the house one day this week.  But an early monsoon last Wednesday even cut that short.

Last Wednesday afternoon, an early storm rolled through and lightning strikes started two wildfires about 10 miles north of M.T. Acres.  The Forest Service called them the Dragoon Fire and the Lizard Fire.  The fires grew on Thursday and merged on Friday morning, so now they just call it the Lizard Fire.  As of writing this (Saturday evening), the Forest Service is saying the fire is 5% contained and has burned about 10,500 acres so far.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5217/

As we turned off the paved road onto the gravel road near M.T. Acres.

At the house:

When we left M.T. Acres, the fire was about a mile from us  and the wind was blowing from the south.  I hope it stays that way.

My plan was to start laying floor tile today, but we had some prep work to do first for the floor and the fire really sapped our motivation.  If a fire is going to burn our house down, I want it to happen before I cripple myself up laying tile.  So we spent the day scrubbing concrete for tileing and getting the doors ready for Tina to varnish this coming week while I am gone.

On a positive note, the doper HVAC guys did get the furnace and A/C installed.  But the furnace is not yet connected to the gas and the whole job looks like it was done by a blind 3 year old.  GRRR!!!

Nothing is straight and many of the exhaust joints are not even completely covered with the sealing tape.

The A/C at least works, sort of.  But the whole HVAC job has me absolutely furious.

They did not even ask us what components we wanted installed, so they installed the cheapest, crappiest ones they could get past inspector.

The furnace:

The A/C:

The builder and I are going to be having a very uncomfortable conversation this week because I am pissed!