Trusses & Stuff...

Roof trusses, porch header, exterior fire place enclosed...
Garage trusses up, too...
Looking from loft into great room...
Front of house showing roof trusses & porch header...
End of house with fire place and patio doors...

Setting Up The House - Part 3

Back of the house, now with second level exterior walls...
Garage walls are up now, too...
Uh oh, squatters in the loft already...
North end of house from trees. Fire place will be between the patio doors...

Setting Up The House - Part 2

North end of first level with patio doors and fireplace cutout...
Tractor trailer with more walls in garage & house with first level exterior walls almost done...
That crane has a might long reach...
Part of front wall moving into place...
Lower level exterior walls all in place...

Setting Up The House - Part 1

Center beam going in...
Another load being backed down the drive way...
Part of the back wall being lowered in place...
First level floor is down...
First load of walls to be unloaded...

A Little More Progress...

First trailer load ready to go. A couple walls and some siding...
Sill plates have been added...
We have electricity...
Looks like the log mantle is in this load, too...
Sill plates on the garage...

Waterproofed & Backfilled.....

House & garage have been water proofed & back filled...
Diamond Lil in garage...
Josah, Carter, Bob & Kola by the south end of house...
Bob, Bobby, Carter & Josah checkin things out
View into garage and south end of house...
Below the floor plumbing getting roughed in...

Basement Walls

Putting the forms up for the basement walls...
Forms all up for the garage and the house...
A look through the re-bar into the basement before the forms are all up...
Another shot of the forms going up around the basement...
Pouring the concrete into the forms...

06/21/06...........Does anybody know a joke? I feel like were waiting for cement to dry...Oh!!! We are!!! Later!

Foundation Time

What's a construction site without a lovely model to show off the latest in "Caterpillar Casual"...

Looking down the driveway again, this time with a cement truck unloading into the cement pourer thingy (sorry for the technical jargon)...

Cement truck pouring foundation for house with garage on left...


House footings poured...

Dirt Work Started!...evening

Josah surveying the hole for the house...

House site looking back south from the north end...
Diamond Lil has already found a cool basement corner to rest...


Garage area pretty much smoothed out...south end of house will be just to the right of those 2 trees are in the middle of the picture...

Dirt Work Started!...morning

View from back up the driveway a little as the bulldozer gets started...

Start of hole for basement...
Garage site on left...house on right in front of dozer...


more dozin'

Staked Out

House & garage sites.....if you look real hard, you can make out a few of the pink stakes...

Just a shot of the wetlands area...

This is where the house will be.....the shot is facing north, the front of the house will be on the right, facing east...

garage goes here...
'nother shot of the house site...