We got the pour done bringing our walls to 8' finish, they are now starting on the next four feet of wall height. Sorry no pics of this last pour, I was at home waiting on our mattress to be delivered, while Mary was helping with the concrete, no second pair of hands to take pics.


The bracing is still in place, the anchoring bolts for the windows and doors are in, each block will then need carved out and fitted accurately tricky stuff, after this layer of difficult carvings the last two layers should go real fast.



Thanks to all the rain, about 3 1/4" from one storm, we now have beach front property. It went up a few more inches since this picture. and this was a gentle flood, wait til late winter early spring, it will be up two to three more feet, on average, could go up to almost five more feet.



Here is D's sand box, in this pic, the flood waters are actually higher than the floor of the pit, this didn't last too long, a couple of hours later we went back and it was inundated. But it was cool to be standing on dry ground two feet below water. Riley of course loves water, this is a gentle flood, during the big ones, it is flowing strongly past where she is standing.



Here is a view of the house from the sand pit.

This is as the house looked two days before the pour. I do not recall what I was pointing at, nor did I know I was being filmed either. Note the ever-present shorts, a year round phenomenon.

As of the Sixth Day of October, in the Year of Our Lord, Two-Thousand Nine

Not much going on because of all the rain comming this week, but a few things of note.

Here I am standing by the Dining Room picture windows, in the house, in the rain, huh, imagine that, rain...as if we haven't HAD ENOUGH OF THAT !!! The Kitchen windows are on the right side of the picture. Now imagine the wall heighth four feet taller than they are now. P.S. I am 6'3" and these walls are currently 8 feet tall.


And we finally got the green house covered, kinda looks as if it is smiling. We had Kevin Dirks help yesterday, all day and into the evening, it was getting rather dark when we finished up, but it is enclosed, I have a few things to do inside to make it for usable conditions (ie. double walls and heat) all winter.

The smiley part and the central nose, are zippered ends; to get the truck and tractor in and out.

I cleaned up the site in the rain, and this picture was taken before then; so yes, the yard looks littered, but it is much nicer now.

As of September 28th 2009

This is looking at D'Artagnon's room, the OSB is eight feet tall right now, we are going another four feet taller.

D'Artagnon and his sister Jessi, sitting in D's window. Nice size windows, ehh?


Construction is a messy job, but we have Big D to help clean up the site.

Starting to look like the castle it will become.

Two eight foot french doors will open out onto our front porch.