Cool dirt moving--filling in the trench.

Josh, Kaitlyn, Nathaniel & Caleb--check out this cool dirt digger & mover. Our plumber is filling in the big trench he dug on Tuesday. The next time he's moving dirt, I'm going to see if he will let me operate it just once! It looks like a riot!

Barney's brother's idea is a winner!

Barney's brother, Richard, sent us this idea. He said, "Why not turn your back patio into a tequila tasting bar?" We had to laugh.. but why not?

I Live at Lowes

I've been busy shopping for everything from faucets to flooring, hardwoods to hardware, appliances, cabinets--you name it. I'm shopping everywhere. Today I was looking at granite out by the airport! One of my favorite places to shop (because I like their prices and they work with you) is Lowes! Here's a picture of a piece of granite I found (at BGS by the airport). It's kind of brownish/gold. It's kind of wild, but I love it. (Actually, the more I look at it the more I love it.) What do you think?

Here's Rory filling in the trench this morning. Pushing dirt around looks like fun!



















Here's the big trench for the plumbing to the house. They dug this Tuesday (6/23)
























Here's the Geothermal Green Team digging the first well. They only got one done today. Three more to go.

We have water!

Here's Rory Schroeder, our plumber, tapping into the Bennington's city water. You can hear it sprinkling outside.

Today is an exciting day!

No pictures today -- yet, but today's exciting because the plumbers are out there digging a trench to the street so we can hook to Bennington's city water! Yea! This will allow us to soak the ground in so that soon the concrete can be poured for the garage floor, the front stoop, the back patio, etc. The heating and a/c well digger guys are coming out today to dig the wells for the geothermal system. AND the windows (well, the majority of them) have arrived and tomorrow the framer will be back out to continue working. (He was off the project for a couple of weeks while the plumbing and air ducts were installed.) Within the next two weeks (or so), I think there will be more visible progress.

Barney just walked in with samples of roofing and siding that he picked up from our favorite lady, Barbara at UBuildIt! So, it looks like we have more decisions to make!

Here's my laundry room!

















We've been busy! I haven't posted pictures lately because they've just been doing the plumbing and heating and air conditioning work, and pictures aren't all that interesting, but I'll post some anyway. (By the way, I have to fix the date on the photos--it's showing as 3 days in the future!) It's great to have those two jobs partially done. Next week we should have running water. We're putting in a geothermal heating and cooling system which we're very excited about.

























The steps are done!




















There are two landings on the steps so if you fall, you only fall 4 or 6 steps!

More pictures of framing... we're about 80% finished framing now.

More framing

Framing is almost done!