Margarita, anyone?

Went out to the house Friday night thinking I'd see lots of progress in the two days I'd missed. Unfortunately, nothing has been done. Philip thinks it was too muddy on Thursday for them to work, and perhaps they took Friday off??? Who knows? I'm just pissed off...I don't care why. And the worst part is Philip saying "I told you so." I really think he thinks it's funny to see me get worked up. Well, think heck, I know he thinks that's funny.

Now who knows when they'll be back to work. Monday is a holiday too, plus it might rain, so there may not be any more progress until late next week. Knowing my luck, they started some kind of indoor job during the rain and will have to finish it first.

I really am going to pull my hair out, and I haven't even really gotten to the stressful part yet. I don't think I'll look good bald, so maybe I should take up drinking a few glasses of wine each evening, or a couple margaritas. Everything goes better with margaritas, right?

Gas Prices

Well, most of you are making fun of me for taking photos of the progress every day, so you'll be proud to know I'm purposefully taking a couple days off. Well, Wednesday was pretty much a washout. I'm hoping work was done today if it wasn't too muddy, but I'm NOT going to check. Aren't you proud of me? I'm going to wait until tomorrow. And in reality, after learning that it took $70 to fill up Philip's truck with gas, I am stupid for driving out there daily.

Anyhow, hopefully, I'll have some new pictures for you all this weekend. Our plan for Easter weekend is to do a ton of spring cleaning around here to get the house ready to sell. Wish us luck!

More and Bigger Walls

Luckily the weather has cooperated for several days. The rain last week waited until later in the day on Friday, and Saturday's rain didn't delay us. I don't know if we'll get so lucky tomorrow. Rain was forecast all day Wednesday, but now it is supposed to start late in the day. Perhaps we will get a full week in....who knows?

Everyone is making fun of the gas I'm wasting driving down there every day to take new pictures, and since it's only getting more expensive, I suppose at some point I'll have to start just going once or twice a week. That's going to be EXTREMELY hard for me though....I'm still too excited to see every little bit of progress. I need a weather-proof webcam out there. With what I'm spending on gas, I probably could buy one!

Basement Walls

I'm liking it so much better with walls! LOL! If you look carefully, you can see the beginnings of a basement window. That will eventually be the workshop window. I'm both excited and anxious, as you can imagine (or as you've heard over and over if you're around me enough).

It's just so neat to see it finally going up!

Hard at Work! LOL

Brad, my contractor, and Philip, the hairy one, are working hard! That's my aunt's house in the background.

Beginning a House, Finally!

Lookee! Lookee! Now I think I can actually say I'm building a house because now there are actually walls going up. Before now, it seems we just pushed around a lot of dirt. This was by lunchtime on Thursday. I'd like to go see where it stands tonight, but it's supposed to rain, so we'll see. Although I want to see the progress, I'm not anxious for a mudbath either.

Footings Finished, Power and Water

So, the footers are finished and the temporary power is connected. They've attached a spigot to the water tap. The block, sand, and cement have been delivered. The only problem is that no real work has been accomplished, which is why you get a lovely picture of my son, giving me his fake smile even though it looks a little like a grimace.

The mason was scheduled to begin last week, then Monday, then Tuesday, then today, and now, perhaps tomorrow. Actually, we are meeting Brad out there tomorrow do or die...I'm taking the day off work and something is gonna get done (I hope). If not, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have a stroke!

It was nice to see my aunt and uncle when I went out there this evening. We're basically building behind their house, but so far when we've been out there, they haven't been home. I'm guessing they work a lot. Anyway, we got some of the neighborhood lowdown. Although I practically lived down there as a kid, I haven't been down there much at all in the last 15-20 years. Gosh, that makes me sound so old! Anyway, whole housing developments have gone in since I used to spend time with my grandparents. Luckily for me, it doesn't seem that much different than my current neighborhood: a couple good neighbors, a couple crazy ones, the cows behind my property still get out of their pasture on occasion and have to be herded back in, etc. I think I can handle that!

Okay, enough for now. IF, IF, IF some walls actually start going up tomorrow, I'll be sure to post a pic!