I think we've got HVAC covered...

From the street it doesn't look like very much is going on...

But they are still mixing up stucco...many bags of stucco and many pounds of sand.

There's some stucco touch up going on.  Touch up above the garage.

Some touch-up on the balcony.

...and the scaffolding is still up because they have more layers of stucco to apply.

But here's where the real action is happening.

This giant silver octopus is one of the HVAC units.

I've got plenty of pictures of this for you.

Did you have any idea this is what you were really controlling when you are adjusting the thermostat?

Shane gave me a lesson in HVAC today. 

Apparently, the two huge tubes on the left are the intake tubes.  Air in the house goes into these fat tubes, then through the filter (which is the rectangle with the handle in the middle), and then up the taller right side of the unit which cools the air.

Next, it is pushed up this tall rectangular piece and out the tentacles on the top.

Can you see the makeshift ladder?

The "third floor" unit that Shane keeps mentioning is accessible through the attic storage and up this ladder, above the second story rooms.

That unit is in this photo, but you can't see it because it's behind all of the huge tentacles.

Here is what's the inside of the HVAC tubes look like.

They don't look anything like the rectangular tubes I see people in the movies crawling through.

Oh, apparently, the guy with the Santa sack was actually carrying a bag of these tubes all smushed up.

HVAC is very exciting, isn't it?

Inside the laundry room, they've installed the dryer vent. 

It's the silver box and tube between the studs.

And they've installed the pipe for the vent hood in the kitchen (silver tube near the ceiling in the center of the pic).

They've cleaned up the wires to the electrical box...they aren't hooked up yet, but alas, they seem to be much less tangled up.

See all of these pretty wires?

These are the ones that make Shane smile- the audio/visual wires.

I assume they are multi-colored for a reason, and not just so the inside of the walls are well decorated...but I think I'll leave all that up to the guys.