Start of New House - November 14th

The excavators completed removing the concrete from the old house earlier in the day and have now started to fill in the old basement area with fresh fill along with compacting.

The pictures below show stake locations for the western side of the house.

This will be the view from the center of the house - kitchen, dining and living room areas.

This view is from the northwest corner of the house, i.e. the master/couple bedroom.

Demolition Day - November 12th

Here are pictures from D-Day (Demolition) on Monday, November 12th and some further clean-up from today of the site. If time permits, I'm hoping to figure out how to load video clips into You Tube as Shelly video taped almost 40 minutes worth throughout the day.

Above is Aaron's old bedroom.

Abby's room is below the pile of rubble.

This was at the end of the day on Monday. The next few pictures are from Tuesday as they worked on removal of the concrete.

Activities from the week of November 5th

This has been a very busy week as we moved into the new guest house on Wednesday evening. Over the course of the past several days we have been attempting to get settled in for the next several months while our new house is being constructed.

Plans are to demo the existing house on Monday and hopefully we'll be able to have a You Tube link if we can figure out how to download a video from our camcorder. If not, it will just be pictures.

Bones found while trenching the line for water to the guest house.


In preparation for the demo, the Reuse Center was at our house on Friday stripping everything that they felt would be useful. They took all the copper piping from the house (oops-$$$$$), toilets, lights, ceiling fans, cupboards, knotty pine woodwork, etc...... This gives us points as part of the Greenstar program as it's better to do this vs. placing in a landfill.

Over the weekend, we are making the final pass through by cleaning up things and keeping other items prior to the demolition. Today, the remainder of the dog fence was removed from the backside of the garage and house. In addition, there was some cabinets, counters, wood that we are hauling and storing in the barn for future use.


Here are some pictures from the week....on top of all of this, Jeff started a new job with G&K Services as the Regional Director of Operations for the Upper Midwest and has been going out with the route sales representatives all week to learn the business. Shelly, Kris and Wayne went up north to see Grandpa Orv play piano.

Here are some pictures of our lovely home on Saturday evening - there are still a few things that need to be completed before we are completely settled in.

Moving Weekend & Week Ahead

Sorry, for not updating sooner, but we've been a bit busy moving everything from our existing house into the barn along with our existing garage for movement later this week into the guest house. We are all very achy, sore and tired as we moved over 6 trucks - 16' footers between Friday night and Sunday noon. See pictures of the barn now with all the stuff along with the moving crew.

This is the area designated as "barn sale" .

On Sunday, November 4th, the interior of the guest house/garage was painted and today they worked on electrical terminations, water hook-ups and started tearing cabinets down in the house. Tomorrow will be a busy day with a lot of activity - Plumbing, Heating, Electrical, Natural Gas and Water being worked on in the guest house. In addition, they will continue to remove cabinets from the house and reinstall in the guest house, along with the refrigerator, washer and dryer.

This will be our last update until probably Thursday or Friday, November 8th or 9th as I'm shutting it down to pack up tonight and it will not be hooked back-up until we are in the guest house.

At this point, they plan to excavate the house next week on Monday, November 12th!!!!!!