Mind Flush

Drywall is done, ceilings are textured: Gutters are installed (although we are still missing an electrical outlet on the porch, and the ridg...

So, round about Day 135 this happened: Look, Plum shutters! Stone! Siding! This morning, our living room looked like this: And this evening,...

Feels sorta weird to photograph her in front of a new tree ... Thought about running over to the new house to take the pics on the porch, bu...

Shingles were done on Saturday, garage door and electrical rough-in started Tuesday, and today the rough plumbing was done and the furnace w...

There's a roof! (Well, plywood that's going to be a roof once the tar paper and shingles get installed. Until then, it's a bit l...

Still no roof, but at least the replacement trusses have arrived. We're supposed to have our walk-through with the electrician next Tues...

This is my house: Notice how there's no roof on most of it? That's because all of the trusses over the main part of the house were m...

Not as many big changes today: But not everything shows up at first glance, like the finished basement: Or the roof on the morning room: Lit...

They got a lot done today before I was able to drop by: And by the time I came back after work ... Why yes, that is all the walls and floors...

We've got a first floor! With a morning room! And a closet! Very excited to see this project finally making great strides. Keep your fin...

Look what we have!  A garage! And a basement! Yay for progress (after more than a week of nothing nothing nothing)!

Well, actually it's looked like this for most of the week, but you get the idea. Basement floor and garage floor are in, they've bac...

Spent all morning packing up the house, and by the time I got out to the building site, it was already three o'clock.  The guys had been...

So, we got a little rain after the hole was dug.  And by "a little," I actually mean "seriously, we need an ark over here....

Jason and I are now the proud owners of a Big Damn Hole: Now, as long as it doesn't rain so much that the whole thing caves in on it...