Ted and Nina went out to the house yesterday. Ted had been away Tuesday and Wednesday at a conference in Utah, so this was the first time that he had been to the house all week. Somewhat disappointingly, not much was actually done installing the doors and windows this week. Picture 1 shows the installed […]
Nina and Ted went out to house on Sunday to see the progress since Wednesday. There was no work Thursday because of rain, and it had been raining again today. Despite the rain, much of the scaffolding is up (Picture 1). The scaffolding needs to be up so that the crew that will install the […]
We now have a house full of windows waiting to be installed (Picture 1). As they hustle to get everything ready for the window installation there has been lots of activity. The grading work was given extra urgency by the forecast of rain tomorrow (Thursday) and Sunday. They really want to get all of the […]
Nina went out to feed the chickens yesterday and took some photos of the new concrete. They had not yet taken down the forms around the new retaining wall. The first picture is looking down onto the retaining wall on the East side, and the second is on the West side. On the West side, […]
Ted was out on Tuesday cutting down the grasses and weeds that will become a fire hazard on the slope above our citrus grove. While he was there, the inspector came to look at the rebar and forms for the retaining walls on the west (Picture 1) and east sides of the house (Picture 2). […]
Ted found it confusing that I took the pictures on Thursday but labelled the blog entry, Friday, so I have changed it to Thursday, and named this one Friday, which is the day he took the pictures. He had to drive out to Modjeska to meet the shipping company driver who had our 10,000 gallon […]
The inspector came on Tuesday and the cement truck came on Wednesday to fill in the foundation of the new back wall behind the house. At the back of the photo, you can see some of the old retaining wall, which they kept. Behind the walls above, is another wall, called the debris wall, which […]
They poured the concrete for the foundation of the retaining walls attached to the house and the diversion wall above the house today, but neither of us could be there, so no pictures. Instead, here are some more pictures of the things growing on the property. Many of these are followups to the pictures included […]