Friday - Rod and I both took off from work to do the painting. We had help from Rod's step-dad Shelton, his step-mom Annette. By Friday evening, we had all the downstairs complete and most of the upstairs done. My Dad had already been coming over daily to help with the painting downstairs.
Friday afternoon - all the trim, bead board, and doors arrived. We all helped unload the truck and it was full. We unloaded it all onto the deck.
Also, on Friday all the brick was complete.
Saturday - We started out early with a run back to Porter Paints - we have now bought 59 gallons of paint. Later in the day, Shelli, Zac, and Hayley came up. We did more painting with Mom. Rod and Dad worked on putting up the bead board under the small deck. We camped in the house again on Saturday night.
Here is a picture of the bead board. It is hard to tell this is a ceiling, but it is.
Sunday - We didn't do too much work on the house.... Tori and Tina worked on the posters (see the post below)
Monday - Work started on the septic tank. They have done lots of digging for the field lines and have really moved some dirt. They finished to the point of being ready for an inspection on Wednesday afternoon
They also started on the vinyl siding for the eves and over hangs. On Monday they put about 1/2 up; on Tuesday they put up about another 1/4; and on Tuesday afternoon.. they took it all back down. They had put the wrong kind of siding up (vented) and we are supposed to have solid because of our insulation system. So on Wednesday they put the right kind back up.
On Monday evening Rod, Rick, and my Dad did more of the bead board on the front deck. It is hard work and there is still so much more to do.
Tuesday - Remember all the trim I said was delivered on Friday? Well on Tuesday we got the news that the concrete guys were going to be back on Thursday to repair the deck... meaning all that wood now needed to be moved. So when Rod got home, we started moving all that into the house. Oh boy was that tiring.
That meant that Rod couldn't get anything else done before Tina's softball practice, so at 10:00 when he got home, he went over and grouted the girls bathroom. The tile job looks great, but it was extremely time consuming. We are going to pay to have the upstairs shower done. Rod's time is too valuable to be spent on that and we will leave it to a professional.
Wednesday - They are trying to get done with the digging so that they can move the heavy machinery out of here. They took care of digging out where the retaining wall will be as well as where the footers for the patio are going to be. That only left 1 more item - to dig the trench from the temporary service to the house.
Rod had been worried that they would hit the water or electricity that he had run underground to the well house and the camper. He was supposed to mark them and he had not gotten around to it. I can't imagine how he didn't get this done since he never does any work (surely you can hear the sarcasim). Anyway, anyone that has followed the blog knows what the next picture will be...
you guessed it - they hit BOTH power and water. My Dad was nice enough to come fix the electrical since Rod was not going to get home until after dark, and now it is 10:15 p.m. and Rod is finally home and over there doing plumbing. Since we have lived in the campers, this is not the first time for him to be working on plumbing after 10:00.
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