>but tomorrow, gods willing and the crick don't rise, we should be able
>to install the door.

Well, neighbors, it's looking like the crick done rose. The wall is in such bad condition that preparing it to have a door in it has involved the construction-in-place of a lot of new framing--enough to take up most of the available time today. Most likely the temporary non-hole will be reinstalled at the end of that, with door installation rescheduled for the beginning of the next work session. Kind of a bummer, but, well, sing another bar of the old-house blues. This kind of thing comes with the territory on a project like this.

--G.
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