The New House: Phase 4 Walls!!

This is our last blog entry before we leave for Tucson tonight. After this we will be blogging remotely with pictures that Chris' mom will be taking for us. We now have walls framed both interior and exterior. Our woodstove is on order and should arrive in about a month, hopefully sooner. The roof trusses (sp?) should arrive today at the job site. Thankfully there is no snow sticking to the ground yet. The roof should be up before it snows to protect the house this winter. Yay!

It has been so neat to see the house progressing. And now we can finally walk through the rooms and get a feel for the actual sizes and shapes of the rooms.

Looking at the living room and front door area before interior walls.

Interior walls: Master bedroom looking towards the door to the master bath.

In the guest bedroom looking towards the hall. Hmmm.....I think :)

Other guest bedroom looking at door.

Standing in dining room looking at hall/front door area.

We have sub-flooring!!

Sorry for the dark pictures they were taken last night just after the workers finished for the night. Thursday they attached our subflooring to the foundation. We now have a crawl space for our house. We will swing past the house later today to see if there is anymore progress. It has been cold and a little snowy.

(Sunday November 16) They have attached the utilities underneath the house and we now have faucets on the outside of the house and piping for the sinks and appliances inside the house. Two lots down from us now has the walls being put up. They made so much progress in just a day and a half, I was amazed. We have picked out the colors for the outside of the house. It will be a medium gray with light gray/white trim. We will have a burgandy color door and slate/gray shingles on the roof. I think it will look so nice. We were told that we will need to have our wood stove ready for them to put in the 2nd week of December!! Yikes....we need to order it since we will be gone for the next two weeks in Tucson. Not getting back till Dec. 1st. We weren't expecting it to be so soon!

Chris walking on the subflooring

It now has ply wood on top of these beams. Sorry for the outdated pictures.


We will get new pictures before we leave on wednesday, but after that Chris' mom will be our photographer while we are gone. I will try to get a post or two in while in Tucson. No promises though!! :) Thanks for following our blog.

Trick-or-Treat!!

Friday from 3 to 5 pm is the Main Street Merchants Trick-or-Treating through Chester. I went with my friend Helen and her three children and I also took one of my "kids" to trick-or-treat down Main street. Canvas actually got a good amount of dog treats and a lot of compliments on her clown costume. She was also in the mood to make some new doggie friends at the Treats store in town. She loves her little pug friend named Feo (not pictured).

Canvas and another doxie (witch) getting to know each other.

Canvas posing at the Treats store for her Halloween picture. She was very good!!

We had a great time and the kids had fun going through the little haunted houses that the merchants made. I love living in this small town and the fun things everyone gets together to do. People here are so friendly for the most part and I love how they involve their pets in everything as well. We went to the assisted living center in town and they were telling me I had to come in with my dog for all the people living there to see. It was a great day!