Why do you build me up, Buttercup

...just to let me down?

We stopped by the house on Sunday evening to see whether they had started insulation, but no such luck.  I shrugged it off at the time, because I know that the electrician was still working on Friday morning and if he hadn't finished when the inspector got there, no inspection.  So I assumed that was the case, and that the inspection would probably happen Monday.

Today, though, I was expecting to see insulation at the very least, and drywall or siding at the best.  What did I see when I pulled up this morning?  Nothing.  Zip, nada, zilch.  No insulation, no drywall, no siding.  Not even deliveries of the supplies for any of those things.  It pretty much looked just like it did on Sunday.  Oh, there were people walking around inside, and a generator/compressor type thing was running by the garage, but without the supplies I don't know what they could have been working on.  Does this mean we didn't pass inspection?  Without our case number I can't look on the county website to find out.  I would really, really hope that our PM would let us know about something like that.  If it weren't for the fact that I have no voice at the moment (bronchitis, blech) I'd have been making some phone calls...and as soon as my voice is back I will be.  We were really hoping they'd be able to shave a few days off our Dec 19th date, but this is not the way to accomplish that!

All that aside, I have not been idle...as noted on the last post, my pre-drywall gazillion pictures were taken on Friday and I spent most of the weekend stitching them into meaningful pictures.  And let me tell you, I'm glad I did it immediately, because they STILL started to blend together into one massive pile of studs and wires.  For those of you who can't do video (I started to, but the iPhone's video lens isn't wide enough for my standards), I highly recommend turning your pictures into panoramas.  It is SO much easier to figure out what's where if you can recognize the room based off of two walls and a window or door, as opposed to one wall and possibly nothing else!  The newest iPhone OS (6, I think?) has that feature, or if you have Photoshop there's a pretty easy to use tool in there.  If anyone would be interested in how I do that, let me know.  I've definitely learned that there's a couple tricks to getting a good panorama out of a series of stills.

Here's a selection of my panos...I didn't crop them to tidy rectangles so as to save as much pertinent detail as possible.  As you can see, some have more distortion than others, so even knowing the tricks isn't always good enough if you don't follow them!  :)

Basement door, under morning room

Basement, from morning room looking towards smaller storage area

Basement, from morning room looking towards smaller storage area

Basement, in the larger storage area looking at where all the mechanicals are
(I believe this is under the study)

From living room, through dining room, pantry/powder room, kitchen, into morning room

From family room, through study to garage

The wall of the laundry room where the pipes are (also the hallway wall)

Kitchen, the electrician is standing in for our stove  :)

Kitchen ceiling - there is a LOT going on up there, so take lots of pictures!
This is only one out of five or six that I stitched together.

Family room, looking through staircase and mudroom to garage

More kitchen, looking through powder room/pantry, dining room, living room

From the master bedroom, looking to the opposite corner

Mudroom (with no closet, per our non-standard request) and staircase

Staircase from study, with lots of HVAC showing

Added for Isz:

End of family room, with study door on left

Family room into study/staircase