Dinner and water? Sounds like an odd combination. But, things are continuing to move along in the Happy House (HH) and these are two things I wanted to share in this post. A few weeks ago, Laurie and I set up a card table and plastic chairs in the ...
In addition to building the house, we took on 13 ducklings, which arrived June 4th. 13 Ducklings, June 5 They grew, and grew, and at 12 weeks, they really filled the pool! A few days ago we finally found time to "reduce the ...
We went to Colorado Springs to pick up the windows and doors. We installed them and added the overhangs: Here is a pic looking out from the interior: What a view, eh? This one shows the skylight: When we headed off to bed it was 6 ...
After months of planning, reviewing drawings (correcting mistakes on the plan) and getting the SIPs panels made ahead of time the big day has arrived. All the pieces should fit together and in 3 days we should have what looks like a house. Here we go ...
Whew! The foundation is finished and passed inspection with two whole days to spare before the SIPs crew gets here to put up the house :) . Here's a pic of the foundation: You can see the plastic around the outside of the foundation wall an ...
On Tuesday, August 4th, the SIPs panels arrived. The floor, walls and roof of our house were all on a single trailer: The driver unloaded the panels and Tim directed where each set of panels was to be placed (around the house) in order to mak ...
The basement walls are framed and we're starting to put plywood on the outside. Our friend, Trisha, helped! Here's a picture from farther back showing the barn, RV and background: The septic system was completed and appro ...
Wahoo!! We passed the county inspection for the footers and got them poured! The building inspector and the excavation guy both commented on how much attention to detail we were applying. I guess they see a lot of less-than-good-quality ...
Many people don't realize how much work goes into a new property before you can even think about working on building the house. The septic system is being built, trenching is done to run water and electric lines to the house, barn and RV. And digging ...
We're continuing to make progress at the new Golden Gaits Ranch property. There's a lot of grass in the fields that is just begging to be enjoyed by the horses. However, the property is not fenced. I (Tim) started working a bit on fencing in order to ...