If you wanted to help us out at some point during the construction this would be the time! 
Monthly Archive for May, 2008
We are heading back to finish Step Five! Laine and I are taking time off starting this Friday and will be working on the stucco for the next three weeks, hopefully finishing this crucial step!
It’s been a long time coming with the next step in our house building but this weekend we finally tackled drywall! We got most of the second floor finished with the help of my Dad and friend Phil who brought along his drywall gun. It sure made a difference and was much easier to use than my cordless drill/driver.
The drywall going up is one of those magical stages in construction that totally changes the character of a house. Rooms get closed off and start to feel like the spaces they will become. The house gets easier to envision with life and people inside it and you feel a lot closer to being done finally!
We should be able to finish most of the drywall evenings this week except for a few areas where the electricien didn’t put boxes in yet.
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My wife and I spent a weekend morning walking about a piece of land for sale near our home and fell in love with it! I hesitate to give away too many details, we’d love to be able to buy it but it would be a year or two before we could even think of doing that. It has 5 springs on it, borders a small river, has hundreds of acres of every kind of habitat (including small wetland areas) and out of this world views.
It would be perfect for a campground/nature school/wilderness preserve!