Monday, December 17

Mooooooore siding. I even got to help put some on! Very exciting. It snowed like crazy on Saturday, so they guys didn't come out to keep going. So far, we have about half of the house sided. The heat/ac guy came out on Friday afternoon, so hopefully they will get started digging the coils for the geothermal soon.

Poor, lonely puppy!

Buddy up on the roof. Right after I took this picture, Dave and I climbed up and put the VERY top corner piece in.

Here's the roof from the top!

Here's the pond all snowy and icy.

The front is all sided!

More of the siding

More siding, the east side of the house.

The laundry room niche.

A meeting of the minds.

My stupid, muddy boot.

Step #18...Siding

Siding is going up. It's so nasty outside, so they haven't made much more progress. The last picture is how beautiful the pond looks, even though it is slicker than snot outside.

Tuesday, December 11

Well, we have made progress. But, due to the severe ice storms that have left us without power, there are no new pictures to post. We lost power on Sunday morning, and Hallie and I managed to make it over to Barb's to stay the night. We stayed Sunday and Monday, and then they lost power last night at 11pm. So we all had to go to Lucille's this morning to take showers and get ready for work. They have declared Jacksonville a state diaster zone. Fun. Dave just called and said that our power was back up though, so at least I can shower in my own house tonight!! And I can stop dragging around all of our stuff everywhere we go.

In regards to the house, they have completed the siding on the garage front and the laundry room part of the house. They are back today to continue siding the rest of the house. The soffitt and facia are up and everything looks great!

We did have a loss in the family...our dog, Burt. He was a great dog, and will be missed. His sister, Zoey, doesn't know what to do with herself. She just sits on the front porch and waits for him to come home. Very sad.

Thursday, December 6.

Yesterday they got the front door in! It will look a lot better once it gets painted! Almost all of the windows are in now, except for the bonus room window and the basement room window. They have also Tyvek'd most of the house, with just a few more places to do. Unfortunately, we hit a little snag with all of the other exterior doors, so we have to reorder and try again in two weeks. Oh well.

Here are the living room windows and french doors. The french door hole is covered with Tyvek.

Here is the glass-block window in Hallie's bathroom.

Here are the breakfast nook windows.

And the back of the house.

Tuesday, December 5

Not a whole lot of progress. The shingles are completed...I think. They are supposed to be working on the soffit and facia, so hopefully that will move things along. I just want to get this thing totally enclosed. I want siding, I want shingles, I want it all!

Step #17...shingles on the roof!

We have shingles! YAY! The whole roof isn't shingled, but we have made progress. They finished the sheeting on the east side of the house and all of the gables.

Here are the shingles!

Front view

Close up of the shingles.

East side of the house. The little window will actually be glass blocks in Hallie's bathroom.

This is one of the doors leading out to the back deck. It is a loooong way down.

Wednesday, November 28th

Well, my camera is not broken. I won't go into details, but apparently not all batteries are created equal. Whatever. They are finishing up the OSB on the outside of the house today. I met Phil, aka. Mr. Cabinet Man, at the house today and we mapped out the kitchen plan. It was really fun! They are going to start on the shingles tomorrow, which should be interesting, since it's supposed to rain/snow tonight. Stay tuned!

This is the living room! I am taking this picture standing in the kitchen. You can see the cathedral ceiling.

Here you can see they finally sheeted the front of the bonus room. They completed the back while I was there and started on the east side.

Here is the bonus room above the garage. It's hard to take a picture of it, because the window is so bright! But it's a great-sized room and will make a perfect guest room!

My handy hubby drilling holes for the wire.

Here the newly framed basement bedroom, bathroom and storage room. My other storage room recently because Dave's pool table room. I'm still not sure how I feel about that. We'll see how this all plays out. You can see where the stairs come down. The room is on the left of the picture, the bathroom is on the backwall on the right, and there is a short hallway where the storage room is.

Here is looking into the bedroom.

Okay, this is a weird angle, so you'll have to ues your imagination. The doorway on the left is the bathroom. The doorway on the right is my storage room.