It's a wrap!

Our new garage is ALL wrapped up! We are glad to have that much done and looking forward to getting the siding up. We just beat the darkness getting the west side done as the sun set this evening. We did hit a snag with our siding though. Our hometown store which DID carry it told us they can no longer get the brand/color we have. We are now trying to source it from others outside the area. Certainly wouldn't want it to be too easy. Glad we did order a box when we first bought the house so we do have some extra pieces should we need them for the house itself. Next route would be to find a close enough match and hope for the best it is a detached garage. We shall see. 

Twotti Fruitti Tuesday

It's a bit quiet around here today...cause the daughter went home. We had a nice week together and pray they have safe travels as the remnants of the midwest blizzard linger on the roadways. We only saw a dusting of snow with a bit of icing. North of here in KC they had a record snow of 5+ inches and in their town they had 9+ inches. Roadways are supposed to be good for travel today. I hope and pray so.

Until we see her again in a few days it's gonna be awfully quiet around here. Hopefully we are going to have a few mild days so we can continue to progress on our garage build.

Major Progress

While we didn't get the roof shingled when we had wanted or planned we have shingles now. AND we have a strip of wrap up. This major progress is totally due to the daughter and family! 

 

Twotti Fruitti Tuesday

She's here! Life is good! We are so excited. Let the fun begin!

One Year!

In many ways it doesn't seem as though it's been a full year then in other ways it seems it has been longer. We have been back in a sticks and bricks now for a whole year. It's been nice to have our own space and provide space for the Daughter and family. It' also been fun to host others. We are still not completely sure it was our best idea but we are making the most of it and learning some new things along the way. Fun fact we are still without real living room furniture. We often joke that we are living like college students again with mismatched, second hand, cast offs. That is starting to wear on me. I think I am ready for a couch. Just not certain what kind, how big or what color. So many decisions. We have been extremely mindful of furnishing this little abode, which seems on some days not so little and once in a great while too little but trust me that's not often. Funny how that is. Anyway we don't want stuff. We want practical, functional and preferably even multi-functional in our furnishings. We are winning on some fronts and nostsomuch on others! Definitely a process. But I'm seriously ready for a couch!!

In other news our Friday was quite productive! We now have trusses. Saturday we even got a little OSB in place on three sides along the bottom. It is coming along. Sheeting goes on the roof Monday and shingles will hopefully go up too. Then the completion of the OSB will follow. 

Twotti Fruitti Tuesday

Is winter here? It's possible. We have had two, TWO snows in the last week. The first one was the 8th and then the 12th, yesterday, we had another round of that white stuff. Thankfully, we have done our part as far as we can on the new garage. We are just waiting for the supplemental crew to come onsite to do their part. Then it will be our turn again. 

Twotti Fruitti Tuesday

We did. Hope you did, too!

All walled up!

A week after we started and a day of rain delay with a day off to the City for an appointment and we have ALL the outer walls in place!

Friday afternoon we had an extra set of hands help us get three more walls in place and on Saturday we placed the final wall on our own. WooHoo! Still have to add the header in the opening on the  north door and the remaining cripple studs but we are calling this good for today! The last two days have been very long and physically demanding but we are savoring the progress. Trusses should be here next week!

Croquet anyone??

Sticklers are enjoying a bit of croquet this week. The weather isn't quite what we would enjoy but they do not seem to be annoyed by it!