Ted’s sister Cecily and her son Sean came out for a visit to the house on Thursday afternoon. Some of today’s pictures are from then and some from Sunday afternoon. On Thursday, they started delivering the green roof boxes. There were four types of sedums. The first photo shows some of them laid out on […]
Much has been happening, but Ted’s camera was out of battery at the beginning of the week. We were out there yesterday taking current pictures. They divide into four categories: backyard grading, tiling, kitchen cabinets, and what Pete’s been doing. The backyard grading is almost done. This past week, they made three staircases including a […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Our structural engineer made a visit to the site this morning. Although he had recommendations for minor repairs to cement work in the apartment, he was content with the way the cement construction had been broken into pieces and the preparations for the walls about to be poured tomorrow and next week. Tomorrow, along with […]
On Wednesday, the concrete trucks came and poured all the walls that were framed for pouring. We had an appointment with the designer who is helping us with plans for the interior, so we were unable to come watch. There wasn’t any point in posting any photos last night–since forms with concrete in them look […]
You would think that since the movers came and took everything away on Thursday, there would be nothing left to do at the Irvine house. But we spent much of Saturday and Sunday afternoon there finding stuff hidden in back corners or cabinets and trying to freecycle furniture we no longer need. Although we weren’t […]
The framers were meant to come on Friday to cover the insulation with sheathing. They showed up on Saturday, as we are under the threat of rain from hurricane Rosa. On Friday, the rain was forecast to start as early as Sunday night, but now we will be lucky to get much, if any rain, […]