Basement completed

Basement was completed Wed. Looks good. They've filled in around most of the wall. 2nd payment is due. Framing is to start Mon. Framers are from CR as all the local people are working on tornado damage. Next I will have to decide on siding and shingles and I keep saying I'm going to take photos of houses I like and see what you all think... Maybe I can get to that this weekend.

I have figured out how to load photos from another computer, so I did load some to show the "hole."

I will tell you about my shopping trip to Lowe's another day. Shopping is going to be difficult.

M.F.H.

Walls

Yesterday they poured the footings. Today they poured the walls. Both days we've gone out after work and looked and missed all the action. When school is done, we should get a chance to see some people working. It's raining tonight. House seems higher up off the st. than I expected. I was also disappointed to see that the walls will be fake brick. CK had told me he thought they would be smooth concrete, but I guess it just depended on which company he could get to do the work. Sigh.

Still, very exciting that it is happening. Met some of our neighbors tonight. I talked with the man across the st. and a bunch of kids stopped by. And my kids were trying to find out if there were any kids their ages.

I still can't upload photos to here or to yahoogroups. I can do it from another computer, so if any of you have an idea why it once worked and now it doesn't, let me know. L has been taking a bunch of photos, so some day I'll post them.

M.F.H.

Photos

I've tried twice now to upload photos of the hole in the ground and it doesn't want to work. It looks like a square hole dug in clay; not as deep as I expected, but then they will backfill the big piles of clay back around it.

Today I make my first of 5 payments on the house.

M.F.H.

Hole

Very exciting to have things actually starting. We stopped out before school to see the lot staked out and the claw or whatever the digger is called there, ready to go. Came back after work to see the hole completed. I guess I should have run out over lunch time, but we missed seeing any of the work done.

Now I need to buy the insurance tomorrow and make the first construction payment. Ah, yes, spend money. Also got to see a few of our neighbors tonight. The family to the west side of us is Asian. The neighbors were all checking us out too. L said the people across the st. came out to water their flowers.

Our new address will be 3315.

It will likely be next week before the pour concrete, but possibly the end of this week.

M.F.H.

They Start Digging Tomorrow

The lot is staked out today. We may run by and take a look. They are supposed to start digging tomorrow, but not sure when basement will be poured. Appartently, basement co. has let someone in the line ahead of us; they took on a new customer before they did the work of their long term customer - my contractor. So today he let them know how unhappy he is and it may get done this week.

M.F.H.

Floor plans: upstairs

Floor plans: main

If anyone wants me to email them my original jpegs, just let me know. Maybe you can enlarge them on your computer.

M.F.H.