It might have been Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but it this was not a holiday for the builders. Picture 1 shows that they completed the last missing piece of the replaced, high roof. The framer in Picture 2 is getting set up to finish the framing for the railing for the stairway to the […]
Nina and I spent all afternoon at the house today measuring elevations in the backyard in preparation for having it graded into terraces. It appears that Pete will bid for and do this job. At some point, the missing section of steel beam in the high roof was welded into place (Picture 1). Everyone tells […]
It rained on Monday; it rained over 1/2 an inch on Tuesday, and so far today, it has rained 1.68 inches. According to our neighbor Michael, it rained buckets for about an hour and a half, but it also rained a lot during the middle of the night. All this rain was enough to send […]
It has been a week since the last blog for a number of reasons. Now that we are living full time 45 minutes from the construction site, it is more difficult to get out there often. In addition, this week Ted was consumed with the Campuswide Honors Program admission process. Finally, it rained some last […]
This morning a new crew cleared away the refuse from the framing and then began digging the trenches needed for the footings for two retaining walls that will extend out from the back wall of the house. Picture 1 shows the work on the west side of the house. The orange lines on the ground […]
Ted’s sister Norie was in the area today so we were able to show her the current state of the house. There were five framers working, but it was hard to see what they had done. Walking through, it appeared that much of what they were doing was adding more blocking between studs or joists […]
As Picture 1 below shows, not a lot happened on the house during the week that we were gone. The different vantage point of this picture helps put the house in the larger perspective of the canyon. The structure just visible on the lower right edge of this picture is the chicken coop. Of course, […]