Al: April 2008 Archives
Next comes the walls;)
starting to make progress again now that we had a break in the rain;) We are still more or less on schedule!
gallery for Apr 24, 2008
also, this is the first gallery created by the new, improved version of my auto-gallery creatOr!
Now its time to put the forms in and pour the footing and walls...
So, the way I was posting images did not make Erin all smiley, so I wrote some code to generate galleries automagically... welcom to the first auto-gen gallery, it is basically a re-posting for the last 34 images from the previous post :-p
gallery for Apr 20, 2008
But we have about half of it done...
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I took the kids there and they played in the mud;) 
You will find that many of this set of pics have Kane, Roan, and Erin in them... There was a tragedy when Kane's shoe got stuck in the mud and he walked right out of them... pics of Erin extracting them included;)
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so we got the permits and of course, it starts raining;) But we got about half the digging done... Erin went and took pics at the beginning so here are three. The trees that needed to be cleared are gone now too... so that's good... also, we are on rock, which is of course great! All that's left is another 5' deep and this part is done... with a little luck on the weather tomorrow... we may get the forms for the footing down by the end of the day tomorrow... rock on.
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Roan is very excited;) 
We decided to go with the stone facing on the garage and the columns... here is a pdf of the updated front elevation... its sideways... rotating is left as an exercise for the reader.
Elevations marked... house-placement ready... permit submitted... hopefully it comes back soon. The plan is to break ground next week.
elevation [pdf]
Need help reading the diagram? Check this pdf
OK, the lot is marked now... both the boundaries and the outside edges of the house... we are ready to dig, but waiting on the permit from the city... hopefully that will come this week so we can get going... here are a bunch of pics of the lots with flags in place.
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I thought I would put some pics of the lot before any clearing/cleaning/digging was done… There at the back you can see the trees and the stream bed way at the back… we don’t own all that property of course, it is a state tree-reserve, so no houses will ever be built back there. There are some power lines and a cell tower in the distance back there, but that’s ok;)
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We interviewed many builders and looked at many example houses and decided on Dusty Rhodes Homes and are building out of their Freedom Homes Series. We are currently working with Rocky... he and his sister now run the company, their father has mostly retired. He has been great so far, and we will keep you all updated of course.
