Sunday, June 15, 2008

Finally....

After many delays, some legit others questionable, the lid(construction talk for 'the roof') is finally on and the project finally looks like a house. I started working on the plumbing Tuesday last week but had to jump off that and on to electrical. We've got a guy who's a brother-in-law to some friends in the ward who we are paying to help us. He works 4 tens for an electrical contractor and is going to spend Friday and Saturday's with us. This guy is a piece of work. We started at Home Depot on Friday morning at 7am and worked until 9pm. I new I was in trouble when he asked what time it gets light here. We started at 6am on Saturday. He goes a million miles an hour and we can't decide if he's dipping into the "candy" jar, if you know what I mean, or is just Hyperactive. At any rate we are getting a lot done. We hired our the HVAC while we are working on electrical and plumbing the heating and AC will be going in as well. Here's a few photo's. Front view, back view, entry and great room.

Here are a couple more pictures. Never a dull moment around here with all these animals. We irrigated our field this week and flooded out a couple gophers. Chloe's natural instincts (with a bit of prodding) took over and she had some fun with them. She also took a swim in the irrigation ditch, which isn't a very good idea when it's full of water. She kept trying to swim upstream, to no avail, and ended up getting sucked under one of the culverts where one of the boys was able to grab her. No worse for wear and now we won't have to give her a bath.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Moving Along...

Here's a photo of the latest progress. Note the trusses on the ground. This is one of the reasons why we are doing so much of this ourselves. "We'll get started on Thursday" will always turn into we'll start first of next week. Hopefully we'll get a roof on this week. In the mean time I'll be taking off my framing hat and putting on my plumbers hat and get that going this week.


We made a quick trip up to Northern Utah this weekend to get some of the beams and decking material we are going to use throughout the house. Lots of old weathered lumber off of a ranch that Leslie's sister Lela and family live on. I wasn't so sure about this particular design choice but I think it's going to look great.

We also got a second baby. Berti arrived a couple weeks ago. Our third mare delivered hers also but the baby didn't make it. So we've got Berti and Ender