Back to the house

After putting work on the house on hold to finish the apartment, things are going again, YEA! The house looks like a real house with the siding and shingles on. The doors come in a couple of weeks.

They should be able to paint it next week, then the stone around the bottom can go on.

This is our plumbers pride and joy. It is the brain that controls the radiant heat system. He explained it all to me..........ya, right uh huh.

Did someone say "Puppies?"

Kristy's Golden Retriever had 11 puppies the week before Christmas.....Soooooo cute!

She has sold all but 5 of them, the last little girl goes to her home in the Bay Area this Sunday.

This little guy gets his bath before going to his new home.

They are alot of fun, but alot of work too! Kristy has put in lots of long hours taking care of them, not to mention lots of help from her Dad. It was sad for her to have put 2 of them in a crate and on an airplane for Fairbanks Alaska, she is really attached to them all.

Random pictures

Laura's crazy cat.

Daniel and Heather sharing lunch.

Daniel just about killed himself working so hard to get the storm drain system in and rebar down before the guys came to pour the concrete. I had to go out one night around midnight and tell him to stop and come home.

Moving right along

Insulation in the "apartment"

and in the shop

This is the guy that did the taping, I don't know his name, but he is really fast!

The apartment ready for texture

We hung a piece of duct work down in the apartment and turned the heater on to help the tape and texturing dry faster, I am determined to be moved in by Christmas.

One hard working Dad

My father-in-law Stan, the hardest working retired person I have ever seen. He spent a couple of days on the trencher putting in the trenches for the drainage system, and sprinklers, and other stuff that I don't know what they are for. I think he kinda got a kick out of driving it.

Here he is capping off the septic tank.

More concrete

The front walk
The entryway
Pouring the "breakfast" patio.
I thought it was very cool how they stamped the design into the concrete.

More stamping.

Lots of windows

We drove to Oregon to pick up the windows, this is the one for the dinning room. It was tricky getting it loaded and unloaded.
And here it is put in, I love it!
I told Daniel and Brian, our framer, that they could not stop until all of the windows were put in, so here they are working into the night. I am one tough superintendent!