This busy week began with a surprise introduction to a snake. I was reaching down to pick up trash on 2012 and got lunged at by a copperhead. I sort of lost my civic drive for litter control after that.
The stone, fire bricks, chimney lining bricks, sand and mortar mix are on site. I have exchanged a couple of voice mails with my mason, but no sign of his guys on the hill yet. The chimney structure itself will be built by one team and the dry stack by another.
The originally intended drywall team came out on Tuesday, looked around and said “no thanks”. They had other, lowered ceiling homes to do! LOL Mike got the same guy that did the foam insulation to do the dry wall. They worked furiously Friday and were still out there on Saturday going strong.
The roofing sheets are in Walnut Springs, and Mike was rigging up a contraption on his 40-ft trailer to be able to slide them over the top, since some of the sheets were 50 feet long.
The lost windows for the sun room were found and have been delivered. The sun room is filled up with stuff from all over the house, to make room for the dry wall team. Still waiting on the replacement windows for the ones that were built incorrectly for the back wall. Mike put in the horizontal beams for the corner window and has ordered the glass.
I toured Drexels's cabinet shop on Wednesday and got to see all the cabinets for the house. They are really beautiful. We compromised on molding- no crown, but a simple step down trim. I cannot imagine what it will be like to have so much storage space.
So! I got my half of what was expected this week, and I am happy. It is Sunday noon; I am on a plane to Chicago for 4 days for work. I hope to have a metal roof and some dry stack when I get home.
I had a city planning meeting this week and then went straight over the Citizen’s Center to help fight the battle against a rock crushing operation on Chalk Mountain. I wish that Mr. Davis would go find a less beautiful and beloved mountain to “take down”. We shall see.
Saturday Diane and Jerry Cassell came down to Glen Rose and visited with Tracy and me before they went to Rough Creek Lodge. We toured the home site and had a muey delisioso burger at Big Cup Eatery. Then we went to Lord's Acre, where I donated a windmill tail that I painted a Texas flag on and bought a European mounted buck. Quite a country exchange.
Saturday evening we joined Linda and Karen at a Friends of the Brazos River fund raiser at M & W Ranch on the Brazos. It was a good but short weekend and a productive week on the hill.
The stone, fire bricks, chimney lining bricks, sand and mortar mix are on site. I have exchanged a couple of voice mails with my mason, but no sign of his guys on the hill yet. The chimney structure itself will be built by one team and the dry stack by another.
The originally intended drywall team came out on Tuesday, looked around and said “no thanks”. They had other, lowered ceiling homes to do! LOL Mike got the same guy that did the foam insulation to do the dry wall. They worked furiously Friday and were still out there on Saturday going strong.
The roofing sheets are in Walnut Springs, and Mike was rigging up a contraption on his 40-ft trailer to be able to slide them over the top, since some of the sheets were 50 feet long.
The lost windows for the sun room were found and have been delivered. The sun room is filled up with stuff from all over the house, to make room for the dry wall team. Still waiting on the replacement windows for the ones that were built incorrectly for the back wall. Mike put in the horizontal beams for the corner window and has ordered the glass.
I toured Drexels's cabinet shop on Wednesday and got to see all the cabinets for the house. They are really beautiful. We compromised on molding- no crown, but a simple step down trim. I cannot imagine what it will be like to have so much storage space.
So! I got my half of what was expected this week, and I am happy. It is Sunday noon; I am on a plane to Chicago for 4 days for work. I hope to have a metal roof and some dry stack when I get home.
I had a city planning meeting this week and then went straight over the Citizen’s Center to help fight the battle against a rock crushing operation on Chalk Mountain. I wish that Mr. Davis would go find a less beautiful and beloved mountain to “take down”. We shall see.
Saturday Diane and Jerry Cassell came down to Glen Rose and visited with Tracy and me before they went to Rough Creek Lodge. We toured the home site and had a muey delisioso burger at Big Cup Eatery. Then we went to Lord's Acre, where I donated a windmill tail that I painted a Texas flag on and bought a European mounted buck. Quite a country exchange.
Saturday evening we joined Linda and Karen at a Friends of the Brazos River fund raiser at M & W Ranch on the Brazos. It was a good but short weekend and a productive week on the hill.
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