Jeff and I took our cross country skis out today; it had been at least 3 years. What a blast that was. The two pictures that I am posting were taken just moments after Jeff denied my request to abort searching out a "hike in" cabin and take the easy trail. His exact words were, "this isn't the hardest trail". It did indeed get easier, but not until Jeff took his skis off and walked up the hill and fell down a half dozen times. I also nearly did a sommersault over my right shoulder. We finally got some momentum going and Jeff fell again going down a hill in front of me. If laughter is indeed good for you, I have been healed and will probably live forever. We think we'll go again, maybe New Years day.

Windows Going In - December 27th

The concrete slab was able to cure over the entire Christmas weekend - 4 full days and then on Wednesday they continued to frame the 1st floor. In addition, B&D Plumbing started working on the heating, cooling and ventilation ducts.

Today, the windows arrived and installation started. Here are some pictures following today's activities:

I just read Jeff's Dec 9 post and for the record, Jeff.....

I can if I want to. I just didn't want to mess with your stuff, but anymore wise comments like that and you'll be surprised what you'll find on here. Love, Shelly

December 21st Update & MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS

By now, everyone is hopefully settling into being with family and friends over the Christmas Holidays.

I apologize for no posts over the past few weeks, but I've essentially been out of pocket traveling for work. However, there's been daily progress, but not all that noticeable. Today, was an exciting day as they poured the slab on grade following a week of laying down the utilities (water, sewer and heating coils) throughout the main floor of the house. Hitting this milestone, will allow Kevin and the crew to finish framing up the main floor on Wednesday and it's expected that they'll start installing windows possibly next Thursday or Friday.


Below are picture updates from the past couple of weeks:


On Sunday, December 9th (12 days ago), they installed polypropylene inside the house to retain the heat in order to melt snow and unthaw the ground with a propane heater and the furnace from our old house. The goal was to accomplish everything in order to make today's milestone of pouring the floor.

Roughing in the water and sewer lines at the beginning of this week:

Radiant floor tubes were laid down on Thursday, December 20th:

The first cement truck arrived this morning at 8 a.m.

Update on Sunday, December 9th

This is an update on the house project as of Sunday, December 9th. As you can see, they completed closing up the roof on Friday and hooked up the old furnace to start heating up the interior this coming week. They put up plastic sheeting over the openings on Sunday and will start warming things up Monday. Enjoy the pictures taken today - one can tell that we have about 12" of snow on the ground and the weather outside over the weekend has been very cold - close to zero!! Boy, I'm glad that I'll be heading to Tampa, FL this week for 4 days - back home on Thursday and will plan to update the website over the weekend unless Shelly can figure out how to do it.

Framing & Roofing Progress - December 6th

Well, it snowed again this morning, but here are several photos over the course of the past couple of days as they worked to get the roof on. The plan calls to finish up the roof on Friday along with moving the furnace in and they plan to polywrap the inside on Saturday with the plan to get power and heat going on Monday next week.


These are Bryan's favorites that he took while being out at the job site on Wednesday:

Here is one of the kid's bedrooms with the views:

Here's the other bedroom upstairs and the views:

View of the sitting room/area on the 2nd floor:

Roofing progress over the living area of the house: