New Home Week 8

This week they finished up the brick and have a few small areas of siding below the eves.

They also finished up the sheet rock inside the house and were doing the taping as we took these pictures.

New Home Week 7.5

We had been asking our builder for an estimate to have our interior walls insulated. It was to help with the noise in the house and we were told up front with this build that we would not be allowed to work on site while the home was being built. When our builder finally got back to us it was to say that we would just be better off doing it ourselves.  The problem was they are going to start the sheet rock installation Thursday and our time frame for installing the batting was Wednesday night while I was in Seattle. This left the batting installation to Tania and Matty, I must say I was very impressed that they did it all and in about 4 hours Wednesday night. 

Business Travel

Earlier this week I had to travel to Seattle for work. I normally don't care much for for business travel but this trip was very enjoyable.

I didn't bring my camera with me so the pics are not real good quality. The first was one I snapped out the very dirty airplane window as we passed by Mt Rainier.

The first night in Seattle we went on a dinner cruise courtesy of Boeing. The weather was absolutely beautiful in the mid 80s, it was even quite warm after the sun went down.

This was a shot I tool of Bill Gates shack.

Some of Bill's neighbor's shacks.

This house belongs toCharles Simonyi, a former Microsoft executive that was responsible for the development of Word and Excel. Its known as the Windows 2000 house.

The pictures I took later were too low light and came out very grainy.

The next day our meeting was held at the Museum of Fight, after it was over I was able to spend a few hours looking through the museum.

New Home Week 7

This week they dropped off the brick, finished the shingles and completed the wiring.

US Nationals

Matt and I went to the US Nationals today, I managed to get some free tickets through work for the Saturday qualifying. I didn't take any pictures of the racing but this awesome 66 Nova was sitting just outside the stands.  It has a LS9 crate motor from a ZR1 and a 6 speed transmission. Inside it was all leather and had so much you could smell it standing 10 feet away.

We stayed through one round of pro qualifications and part of the sportsman qualifying, but after 5 hours of we both had seen enough.  The fuel cars as usual were a blast to watch.

New Home Week 6

This week they got some of the siding put up around the windows, the eaves trimmed and the roof ready to shingle.

Due to the slope of the lot and a miss-communication with the company that poured the basement, the brick ledge had to be re-cut so that it was lower.

They hung the garage doors this week, they are insulated and finished on the inside.

Here is a picture of the gas fired heat pump in the basement.

This is a shot of the windows in the basement with the fire escape ladders installed.

Yorkie Pup

Tania and Matty drove up to Anderson Friday and picked up a male Yorkie that is 8 weeks old. We do not yet have a name for him.

New Home Week 5

This week the big visible items are the windows installed, the exterior doors hung and the stairway to the basement installed.

New Home Week 4

Here are some progress shots from week 4. All of the flooring was installed, main floor walls put up and the roof started.

New Home Week 3

This week they sealed and insulated the outsides of the basement walls. They also brought in gravel for the basement and garage floors and poured them both yesterday.