Organ Progress

And in case you thought we had forgotten about it:
Juget Sinclair continue working away on the organ. Here are two recent pics, one of the console and the other of ... er... some other organ part. I think it is actually something like a pipe chest, part of the way that the winding (air under pressure) goes into the pipes to make sound. I'm sure John or someone else on the committee will correct me. If they are reading this.
And here are some pics of the "test bore" to see how thick the floor of the choir loft (or ceiling of the narthex closet, depending on your point of view is) and to make sure that there will be nothing in the way of making a larger hole for the wind supply. The blower for the organ will be in the top of the (very tall) narthex closet, leaving the closet still usable for storage, and there will be a conduit of some kind bringing the air to the organ in the gallery.

Looking a lot more like a building...

While I was in Baltimore, reading General Ordination Exams, the steel framing for the structure of the building was delivered by a giant crane and put up. Then this past week the focus of work has been electricity. The side of the church facing the alley now has huge new cabinets of... I'm not sure of what. Something electrical. As I understand it, by the time this is all done, the telephone and electricity wires for all three buildings will be buried, and the church's electrical service will be upgraded. Meanwhile the cabinets for the new vesting room/sacristy space have been delivered. It is all pretty exciting stuff!