02.16.15 to 02.20.15 Sheet rocking, building up the culvert, anchoring columns, neighbors houses! –

Week of February 16 – 20, 2015 – The only house construction this week was the sheet rocking. Almost every day they were here doing all the many layers of mudding, etc. It has taken longer than usual for the materials to dry between coatings so they did not finish this week. They will be back Monday or Tuesday to finish up with the texturing. Roy is very pleased with the quality of work these guys are doing so I’m happy too!

Our contractor Ronnie was in Disneyworld this week with his family including two little grandchildren but has checked in with us often to get updated on the progress. He arranged for the work to be moved to mid week last week from Florida. He may have been playing with Mickey but he was still on top of our house construction and we appreciate that!

The delivery of interior doors and trim work has been pushed back to next Tuesday. The ceiling insulation work has been pushed back to Wednesday of next week so that no one is in the way of the sheet rockers.

Roy moved wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of dirt from the big piles to the culvert this week so that the part in front has time to gets good and packed.

Roy also finished moving the front columns and anchoring the outside two columns to the concrete. Those things aren’t going anywhere! He’ll secure the inside two after he installs the railings which should be in soon!

That’s it for construction this week. Madisyn, Roy and I took a stroll over to the other side of the pond where another house is going up. It’ll be the only house over there since they have 9 acres. It’s further along than ours but not by much.

Another neighbor down the street from us just put their house up for sale. Here’s two pictures from across the pond and a link to the real estate listing if anyone is interested in moving to this beautiful land! Two friends of ours just messaged us that they have an appointment at 1 pm to see it. I’d LOVE to have them as neighbors, even if it’s just when we’re in town! We’ll see!!

http://www.abek.com/details/3205 is the link to the realtor’s page.

I’m working on two other blog posts today, one about Madisyn’s visit with us and one about my visit yesterday with the brain doctor. Hope to have those ready and published this weekend.

Ya’ll come back now, ya’ hear!