We've been hearing chainsaws, jackhammers, and drills going all evening, right outside our windows. It's 11 pm and still going strongly. I finally stuck my head outside to see what was going on. There are several work trucks parked right below us, and workers all over the scaffolding on the building next door.
Someone was cutting huge sheets of plywood with a chainsaw and handing them up to the workers on the scaffolding.
But at 11 at night? What's going on? I saw someone on the scaffolding at our level and asked him. "On ferme les fenêtres. Il y avait des squats." (We're closing the windows. There were squatters.)
Therere were police earlier in the day, so I'm guessing they evicted all the squatters and called over an emergency night crew to close everything up. The building has been closed and locked, but somehow people were still getting in.
We had an excellent work day today, with me, my dad, and Eric. My dad and I boxed in the first beam, the one that goes over the shower, WC, and bedroom wall. We're rebuilding what was originally there when the apartment was built 500 or so years ago. We will box in all the big beams, then create a series of shallower boxes going perpendicularly, one in the middle and ones along each side. Then we install two different kinds of molding and voila! We have recreated the orignal wooden ceiling.
Everything worked out wonderfully, and we were able to get things fitted exactly as they should be. Whenever we were aiming to get things level or plumb, they were spot on with less than a millimeter of variation. So satisfying!
During this time, Eric was up on the scaffolding putting in all of the missing pieces of wood (everything that is light is what he's put back from pieces that had been taken out at some point; everything that is dark is original).
After dinner, we went out to the coulée verte to try out these new LED helicopters that my mom bought. You launch them with a slingshot. Lots of fun. Then we watched Ocean's 8.
My mom made bolani for lunch (stuffed flatbread from Afghanistan). It was amazing! For dinner, I made spicy crab sushi. I made close to 20 rolls and it was all gone except for 2 rolls, which we set aside for Eric. (He's off playing soccer tonight.)
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