Playing catch-up

I have fashioned a very tenuous truce with the Shop. I am not happy with it, but it has given me the opportunity to pull together and edit a few more pictures.

Sadly, I am still not up-to-date.

As of today all of the addition, except for one narrow section, has been sided. The brick knee wall hasn't been installed yet, and the old part of the house needs to be resided to match the new, but once that's done I think it will all start to come together.

The cast iron bathtub for the hall bath was delivered today and so was the fireplace for the new family room. Skip says that Bill (the chief framer) is going to build the platform for the hearth tomorrow and then the fireplace can be installed.

We've got bids coming in for the kitchen and have decided on flooring. The thought of trying to choose lighting makes my head spin. Perhaps we will live by candlelight for awhile. :)

So here's how things looked one day about a month ago. This was a particularly busy day, with the main crew installing windows and the roofers, um -- roofing. Imagine all of the windows in and the siding on and that's where things stand today.


And here we are now. The two little windows are in the family room; right above that is Sara's room. You can see what the new siding looks like, although it still needs to be painted (Hardiplank -- love it!). I don't know why they haven't done that little strip that's facing forward. The birds appreciate it though: That little section where the Tyvek is pulled back is giving them access to the house. We haven't told Sara about this -- she would be devestated if she knew that birds were living in her room and we kicked them out!


And here's the expansion on the north side of the house. This bump-out will give us a much bigger kitchen (hooray!), a 1/2 bath, pantry & mud room down stairs and a master suite upstairs. Hard to see, thanks to the neighbor's tree.


And finally, a little reminder that Mom and Dad are never really very far away. This lone little bulb, planted by Mom I don't know how long ago, somehow managed to come up despite the digging, dragging, tracking, stacking, and demolition that dug it up and moved it several feet from its original home.

I love that.