Rough plumbing and chickening out

It was a beautiful day. I did not have to spend more than 5 minutes digging out the snowmobile, and I pulled right out on the first try. A marked improvement over last time.

Another foot of snow since last week. And all the snow on the roof from last week fell off the roof and has created a major ice mound on the side of the haus.

I did a panorama on my camera to capture this, which is why the beam looks a bit odd.

Finally, I actually drilled a few more holes for rough plumbing. But then I got psyched out after I realized some of the plumbing runs will have to go through some major, structural glulam beams. Any time you're doing something for the first time, regardless of how many hours you've spent on YouTube learning about the task, the task takes at leat 5 times as long as it should.

Staring at the ceiling.
Head scratching.
Measuring.

The above picture is of the main floor ceiling.  The drain from the main bathroom sink upstairs will come down to the right of the major beam (with the blocking for the tie straps). But then that drain needs to go to the far wall and down to the main plumbing stack -- but on the far wall that's also a 5 inch structural beam that the floor jambs are nailed to. No going through that. 

It's frightening to think about drilling a 2 inch how through the beams. And besides, I'll need to get a Forstner bit for that -- a hole saw literally "won't cut it."

I've got the same problem with the drain for the main floor powder room sink with the beams in the garage. And with the kitchen sink...

Pondering.
Measuring again.
Chickening out. 

So, in all I got about 3 holes drilled in the upstairs for routing plumbing. Then I chickened out.

"Chickening out" looks like spending 20 minutes soaking in the sun on the front porch.

Another view of the ice and snow mound created by the roof shedding snow.

Our power meter, shown at the bottom left corner of the screen, is now covered with snow.

I love the clump of snow resting at the top of the skinny tree -- almost looks like an "ice nest."

View from the front porch out to the street and the snowmobile. 

Opposite view from above, looking from teh snowmobile to the front of the haus.

View of the parking turn around area that puts the No Parking sign shown at the top in proper perspective. You can see a snowcave someone has dug to the left of the sign.