Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
We are still here. We are still working on the house. It’s just progressing slowly.
Between going out of town for a wedding, being sick, spending most of a weekend looking for a lost pair of glasses (found, by the way) and being very busy with work, we haven’t been able to get as much work […]
Posted in Construction, General on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I feel like the month of January was mostly a time for catching our breath and figuring out what’s next.
The structure is totally up (walls and roof). Most internal framing is done. The roof material is on and most of the siding, trim and fascia are done. External doors are hung, windows are in and […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Dec 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
The last few weeks have just been a flurry of activity on the house. All the walls are up, the roof panels are on, and the interior rough framing will be finished in the next couple days.
Once that’s all done (and inspected) we’re moving on to roofing and siding. We’ve got two different outfits lined […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
We had our first snowfall that we’ve seen on the property this week! It’s very exciting to be finally living in a place where it snows.
Driving up to the property on Monday morning, it really felt like winter was here as I saw small mounds of snow on the side of the road and the […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Progress is being made, although we haven’t had much time in front of the computer in order share what’s happened. My mother-in-law was kind enough to send me a couple pictures she took yesterday and I thought they were good representations of what we’ve done.
First, here’s our start on the house. We got delivery on […]
Posted in Announcements, General on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
After a feverish rush of work done largely by Matt over the last week or so, we now have completed our concrete forms and we’ve passed our first inspection. Matt and a crew of guys are pouring concrete into our perimeter foundation this morning, and in a week we’ll be pouring concrete for our […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Sep 16th, 2007 4 Comments »
Well, finally, things are starting to happen! We got a septic permit this week, and we started working on that system. Our building permit should be coming any day now, and in anticipation we’ve started chalking the outline of the house and getting ready to do some foundation work.
Here’s Emma, helping with the […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Sep 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Here’s some pictures of our camp, now that we’re nicely settled. Looking at these pictures makes me think of a squatter’s camp (as my brother said) but in person I think it is a bit more attractive.
Here’s the kitchen:
Here’s the “living room”:
Here’s a shot of the garden and the camp beyond:
And here’s Matt and his […]
Posted in General on Sep 5th, 2007 No Comments »
This blog has gotten awfully quiet, hasn’t it! We’re still here, camping on the property and waiting to get our permit. We’ve settled in quite nicely at our “campsite” and we’re enjoying the experience. At this point we’re pretty close to our permit (we think!). We’re waiting for one more set […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Jul 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Look what we had delivered on Wednesday!
You don’t think this looks so great? Well, here’s the alternative…