Still waiting for spring...

This morning we awoke to snow gently falling across the landscape. We are beginning to wonder if Spring has been cancelled this year and nobody told us.



Yesterday the insulation for the attic arrived. We opted to have 12" of cellulose blown in to the house and 7" blown into the garage. That gives us an R-38 rating for the house, an R-20 rating for the garage, and completes the insulation process. I'm not going to miss all that itching and coughing one bit.


In between the rain showers and the snow, I have begun removing the piles of dirt created when we dug out the pad for the foundation. My goal is to restore the natural contour of the hillside around the house, leaving a small flat area outside the basement entrance. I am using my tractor's front bucket and rear blade to do the work, which is slowly beginning to produce the desired results. It would be nice to have a small dozer for this, but I haven't been able to justify the expense of buying one.

The drywall installation is finally finished, and we will mask off the doors and windows today in preparation of priming and texturing the walls and ceiling.

Rock on!

What would have taken me weeks to do, Tom Tucker and his brother Damon did in three days. With a lot of know-how and the help of a sheet rock jack, they rocked the entire house without missing a beat. After Tom finishes with the taping & bedding, he'll mask it all off and I'll apply a coat of drywall primer to the walls and ceilings. Tom will then apply a light orange peel texture to the walls and a hand stipple texture to the ceilings. I will then come back through and apply the final coats of paint.



In the meantime, Susan and I have made three trips to Sunset Doors in Ontario, OR to pick up our doors and trim package. While Tom is finishing his work on the drywall, we will be painting doors, door frames and trim.
We also lined up the hardwood floor installer and Susan picked out the carpet and tiles she wants in the house. Once the interior painting is done, the flooring will go in.