Closing In…

Well….we are getting there…even if progress doesn’t look like much on the outside….

For all our $$$$$ this is what we got:

a bunch of construction traffic….

 some damaged stucco, a bunch of styrofoam and some of that squirty foam stuff…

A new cement thingy that is the ‘clean-out’ chute for you-know-what…

a bunch of these things sticking out of the ground and out of the house…

a few of my bulbs made it unscathed…woo hoo!!!

but the piece de resistance….10 foot ceilings and R40 walls!

oh, and a few of THESE for FREE!!!

 

Re-Post – I am Older than my Mother

Here’s a reposting of an entry I wrote last year…

 

http://repurposed.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/i-am-older-than-my-mother/

 

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Feeling Blue…..

This is a good sign….the contractors have cleaned up the area in front of the gazebo, and smoothed out the rough spots their machinery left in the driveway….

 

The Blue Skin has been applied ( for waterproofing below the surface)

 

The new huge basement windows are framed out…

and green things are beginning to sprout in one of the untouched places…

Our new exterior paint color has been chosen….(BEHR paints – Sierra Madre)..can’t put a paint chip up on here…they won’t let me copy/paste…grrr…

…and we’ve chosen our new exterior brick that replaces that ugly green siding…

and all is alright with the world….

Big Trucks Big Dreams

Not alot of time to write so I thought I”d just get the photos up of the cement trucks filling in the walls…7 days to cure and the house goes back down baby!

The house will only go down about 6 inches from where it is now…you can see the top of the white wall that it will sit on.