“Unless the Lord builds the house, they that labor build it in vain.” (Psalms 127: 1) During the late winter of 2016-2017 lots of things were running amok. The government, yes, but also personally for our house. That season we had a series of ice dams and gigantic icicles from our deck dripping into the walls and ceiling of the family room just beneath it. Fixing this situation was an expen$ive project that took most of the Spring and Summer of 2017. The contractors had to remove the stone surfaces on the deck, strip off the siding of the house between the main and second floors, fill every crack in…