The Frame...the Roof!!

Having touble posting photos today but most of the trusses are up and the plywood will go up tomorrow and the shingles on by Monday! Wow!
Will try later to get photos on - time to get girls from school.

Framing

A beautiful sunny day and photos to prove something is happening on the new house. The girls have a PA day today and were happy to be in the photo. As you can see they put on their pioneer dresses this morning so that they could bake bread and muffins! They are standing in front of the house by the basement bedroom windows on the south side of the house.

This photo is taken from the back of the old house looking towards the north east. The garage is on the far left and the main entry will be on its immediate right. Then the living room (nothing framed on main floor yet) and the bedroom 'wing'. It is going to be a wonderful house!! In the background you can see the backhoe working away - they are putting in the septic system!


Time to go. Cadence and Ava have arrived to spend the day so me thinks my hands will be busy indeed.

The thing about blogs

    In reality I have only checked out between 20 and 25 blogs and faithfully check 3 or 4.  Only one of those have I read since the beginning and how it began I cannot recall.  Blogs to me are just musings of whomever for whomever to read whenever the whomever writes and the other whomever reads.  But how does one begin?  My simple guess it to simply begin penning (with keyboard and no ink) the ideas of the mind.  Our blog is to let you know how things are progressing here, especially with the new house.  Later today or tomorrow I am going to learn how to add a photos so you can actually see the progress but fornow you will need to do the imagining. 

    In May of this year we packed up our stuff once again and hauled it about 35 minutes down the road and around a couple corners.  The new place is near the village of Gadshill which sits a mere 8 km north of Stratford.  Back near our old stomping grounds.  Great place.  We've dubbed the ground here Forestview Acres and we have put 2 farms together (just not on paper) so we have a rambling 250 acres in total.  The second farm has a very old bank barn with most of it's barn boards still attached.  The home acreage has an old frame house that will come down next year some time and a barn which has been renovated inside to house our growing flock of Ile de France sheep.  The idea of moving here was to move into a 'good' house and the fact that new is quite good sits well with all of us.  We won't miss this old thing.

    After hemming and hawing about how and where and who in regards to the new house, construction actually began on October 1st with the hole digging!  The 'hope day' of the completed house is December 21 but that of course, depends on the weather.

    So, that's the house story.  More in the 'years' to come on the farm, the sheep, the family and all they find themselves thinking and doing.

The things you can do these days!

Well, I didn't mean you, I actually meant me. Who would have thought that I could work on a blog and even get a photo on it. Amazing stuff. Hope you enjoy the 'new house'!

This is a photo of Kierra and Dayna standing where the house will be built. This is taken September 29th and the beans came off on the 30th.

The digging day - October 1, 2007

The raised portion is the garage and just beyond it the rest of the house.

Kierra, Cadence and Dayna stand near the garage and the forms that will be put up next week. The date is October 5. What do you think, is it possible for us to be in this house by December 22nd? As always, we shall see!

October 19, 2007

The backhoe came in and did the backfilling and also dug out and built the new driveway! Things are coming along. On the 22nd the basement floor was poured - a lovely brown concrete taht will be our floor for a while. But it will be heated so it will be wonderful! The plan is for framing to begin on the 24th or 25th and for shingling to be happening by November 1st. I promise to keep you posted!

All in all, this blogging is ok. And it will be a good way for me to have a 'book' of sorts documenting the happenings here at least over the next few months.