Late in the day the graders showed up and started moving dirt around again. There is a lot of dirt. From Dartmouth, you can’t even see there is a house being built back there. It looked like they were just rearranging the piles. But they …
Last week someone showed up and marked the block. I think this marks where the ground will come to when the house is done. The forecast was for rain and can-you-believe-it snow. We got the rain, but somebody else got the snow. It is April! …
Cliff is home and we drove over to see how the block is going. Wow! The entire outside is done and they are half done with the stucco, too. I did not know the same crew does the stucco. The outside is completely done. They …
The forecast is rain, but so far it is beautiful out. I drove out to the worksite and Wow! They are making great progress! The masons shoveled out dirt everywhere the walls had fallen in. He used a brush to work all of the dirt …
I got a call pretty early this morning. The contractor and the block masons were on the building site. Woo Hoo!!! Going up instead of down! The block masons got right to work. And they work fast! They must be paid by the job, not …
I was not in love with any of the hardware for the cabinets. Schumacher gave us a credit. It took me months, possibly years, last time to pick out cabinet hardware that I liked. Actually I liked a lot of things, but I get it …
They are starting on the foundation this week. The block was delivered today. Two trucks full of block. Wow! By the time I got down there, some of the block had already been unloaded. They cleaned up everything that got tracked from the muddy driveway. …
When I saw that in one spot the footer was not quite in the correct location, I was concerned. Really concerned. They said they could probably adjust the house over, but we had to make sure we were not too close to the set-backs for …
The concrete in the footers has dried. The surveyor came out to mark where the block will go. He put in nails and spray painted them to make them highly visible. This is one of the piers to hold up the porch. I walked the …
I put some daffodils in the field at our new house. When I visited Ireland, I saw fields that were filled with daffodils. I decided to put some in that will be visible in the spring from living room, dining room and our bedroom windows. …
