Building Our Farmstead - From the Ground Up
I can’t believe how quickly time seems to be moving right now! Three more weeks have passed since my last update on our house progress, and I can’t even believe it’s been that long! Everyday the house is full of people working, but – same as… [continue reading]
I didn’t post an update for the last three weeks for a few reasons. The primary one being that, while a lot of progress is always happening at the house, none of it was majorly interesting. There haven’t been a lot of things to share… [continue reading]
My family is heading away this weekend for our annual “camping” trip. It’s a family gathering of sorts with my dad’s side of the family in Ohio. I put the word camping in quotation marks because what once started as us legitimately camping outside in tents… [continue reading]
If this house build was a pregnancy, we’d be halfway through! Day 133 (Monday, 8/20/18) More windows and doors were put in today. (Bonus points if you can figure out which two windows accidentally got switched by the end of this post). They also… [continue reading]
Day 126 (Monday, 8/13/18) Since we now have the main design completed for the stairs, the guys started to build the landings. Beyond that, they worked on finishing a lot of the framing that they had been waiting to put up for other projects. … [continue reading]
Day 119 (Monday, 8/6/18) The framing of the roof (wow, that phrase makes my brain go straight to The Taming of the Shrew, one of the few Shakespeare plays I like) saw a lot of progress today. It really looks like a house now! Day… [continue reading]
