Sunday night update...

Spent all day on Saturday and Sunday morning putting on 1 roof panel and the edge trim. Put the rest of the panels on in 3 hours on Sunday afternoon. Logan’s room is sheeted, the small strip of roof in the middle of the house is framed and sheeted, and Emma’s windows are framed and sheeted.

Fifties make me anxious!

All this talk of warm weather this week in the 40/50/60's in January gives me the itch to want to plant something, and to make matters worse, my seeds from Baker's Creek arrived yesterday! I can't wait to get the garden up and going and for my berry plants to start fruiting! We will need to order a few replacement berry bushes due to damage during construction and it being so dry, but we are well on our way to FARMING! I have chicks ordered for delivery about April 4 or 5th, and Katie and Robbie brought their new home last night (stock tank).

Sunday night update...

Chimney is in so we now have a stainless steel spire sticking up. In the future we should be able to get good cell phone reception if we touch the fireplace. Will need to build a custom curb for the chimney because rubber boots don’t work on a 16:12 roof. Roofing has started finally - took about 2 hours to get the first piece set and trimmed out with all of the architectural cleats, standoffs, rivets, roll tape, etc. Only takes about 10 minutes to set a panel so it will start to go faster. Cedar soffits are complete at the NW end of the house. Varposhield is up at the basement area now.

Update on the house...

Made a trip last weekend on Sunday to Ikea in Chicago with Logan, Emma and Wendy to get vanities for the bathrooms and look at light fixtures. Picked up some AWESOME pieces and I think I have a new favorite store. Good thing its 5 hrs away! Also got some dressers for us and the kiddos and a bedroom set for our room and a bunk bed for Emma's room.

From Jason -House needs a little a little more plywood sheeting on the backside of the East end and we’ll put on the fascia board, soffit and siding with a lift after the windows are in. Cedar soffit started on the West end. Tried to start roofing but came to a stop as soon as I found that the eave trim was not made long enough so we’ll get started on that next weekend.

final inspection on barn completed...

The barn had its final inspection between Christmas and New Years. This barn & retaining wall were built completely by Jason and Ian with Robbie coming in to help with dirt work. St. Charles County required fencing for the retaining wall so we got part of the fence completed so it would pass. Jason and Ian did not do to bad for having never built horse fence before. :) We used the No-Climb horse fence and wooden posts, eventually need to put a top rail on. One project down...