Week 10, Day 67 - That's Electric!

Today is the last post on this blog for a little while, as I am off, solo, to pick up our boy Gavriel that we are adopting from Ethiopia. Those of you that are curious about that story, can read about it on our other blog.

For the rest of you, here's where things are at right now. Jen's father Tim and I have spent the last couple days pulling a few thousand feet of low voltage wire through the house - this will make up my eventual whole-house-audio system. OK, Tim did most of the pulling. I helped when I could, and when I wasn't packing for the trip and answering the millions of questions that the various contractors had for me.

The framers are almost done. The windows and doors are all in, and they are framing up the arches over the doorways right now. I love the arches. They add curves to all of the straight lines of the building, and really add that bit o' somethin' that I really dig.

While that was going on, the Electricians where there, pulling their wires, and the HVAC people were there running their ductwork. Mike was doing the plumbing too. Lots going on!





Mike and the Electrician talk about the wiring


The framers work on the wide arches in the entry to the great room


Love those arches!



The house is fully enclosed!








Week 10, Day 65 - More Window Work

Today they continued work on the windows. The roofers did their deeds in one day, so now the house will at least shed the precipitation, instead of it raining down inside! So now the framers are concentrating on getting all of the windows put in place.

Week 10, Day 64 - Roof!

Today they continued on getting the windows installed, and since there was a lull in the weather the roofers arrived to get the roof nailed on. I definitely didn't envy them - putting the roof on in the cold! But they didn't seem to mind...















Week 9, Day 61 - Snow Day!

Well, ok...my girl came home from school due to the preponderance of lake-effect snow. So it was a snow day for her. But the framers kept right on workin! And the windows arrived! Apparently the window/door truck *barely* made it up the driveway! WooHoo for steep driveways in the winter! :-P






Notice the window guy practicing the "duck and cover" there in the doorway? well...


The guy on the roof was raking all the snow down on top his head! It was pretty funny!




Our new front door!


That is a long stinkin' way up there!




We have stairs!


First view out our new windows!


And on the main level too!






Our "Scrapbook"

I've never been proficient at scrapbooking, but I wanted a way of capturing the building of our new home. A blog is the perfect way for two "techies" to accomplish the artistry of capturing memories.

We moved from the Midwest to the East Coast in October 2008. We found our building site in November 2008, and broke ground in October 2009.

Henceforth, The Building of Blackthorn Ridge.