Monday, October 15, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Ready for framing / Happy b'day Megan
The masons don't have to go without a warm meal / all they need is their microwave oven and my electricity.
All piers are in place
Today, I believe was productive; Jose, I and several of the boys went to Lowes to pickup 115 blocks. As it turned out Lowes had exactly 115 blocks (am I living right or what?) Santos, another associate of Jesus, stopped by today to give me a bid on the framing and roofing. He has crews available within several days and is very competative; we will see.....
We are planning/heavily to go to Atlanta for our anniversary on Monday to look at cabinets at the IKEA store. These plans are not, at this point firm, but may very well end up being carried out. Obviously there will be another post to this blog should that happen.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
More Progress / More Block needed
Today the concrete company delivered the two cubes of block and bags of mortar that I paid for yesterday. All of the block was used and we now are still 115 blocks short just to get to the point of framing. Others would start to get very irritated at this point (expend negative energy) but what value would that add. Jose, the foreman for this portion of the job (oh, by the way this crew is from Vera Cruz) is feeling abit sheepish. I believe that they are doing a good job and they are working hard and not complaining. The only issue is that they like their mariachi music loud.
Looks like Tuesday completion is out of the question as we will be getting more block tomorrow
Monday, October 8, 2007
Foundation rising / Happy B'day Eleri
All of the remaining block that was on site was laid today. I ordered another two cubes as well as 20 bags of mortar to be delivered tomorrow (an unexpected expense). Block will be used for the peers inside of the foundation walls as well as to finish the foundation. The brick veneer does not match the existing to our liking so we are, at the moment, thinking of painting the brick on the back, bottom of the house. Yesterday we ordered the glass pond front from Home Depot and all of the sky lights (4 for the kitchen and two for the screened 3 seasons room on the upper deck.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Foundation starts to rise
Monday, October 1, 2007
Masonry sand arrives
This might look like more sand than we need..... Well it is. The thought was that we would dump most of it by the pond shore and have a little beach area. It will still get to the shore, just needs to travel wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow to get there.
Our neighbor graciously gave us permission to drive through her yard to our back yard. The truck driver thought that he (and his 38 ton truck) would crush the culvert going into the pond and rip up the neighbors yard so a command decision was made to dump in the driveway on Hans' car's side.
Our neighbor graciously gave us permission to drive through her yard to our back yard. The truck driver thought that he (and his 38 ton truck) would crush the culvert going into the pond and rip up the neighbors yard so a command decision was made to dump in the driveway on Hans' car's side.
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