July 22, 2007 Marilyn approved the lighting

All the electrical work passed inspection

and Marilyn approved the matching light fixtures.

and dining room chandelier.

July 14,2007 Lots of Work Done, Not Much Shows

Guest bathroom is coming along. Air conditioning and electricity are in.

Master bath floor is done and

most of the woodwork and doors are hung and painted.

July 8, 2007 Terry Painted the Barn

How'd he get up there?

How'd he do it?
Great equipment. He borrowed the contractor's hydraulic lift.


Getting the paint sprayer ready.

A ladder's not tall enough.

Got it!

And Marilyn spent all day cleaning paint and plaster spray

off the garden tub and windows.

Gretchen's on the job.

She says it's hard watching the house and the barn.

June 30, 2007 Kitchen Started

The kitchen's started with most of the custom oak cabinets in.

June 23, 2007 Working Hard on Hardwood

Terry painted ceilings and walls this week and the flooring guys made a good start on the red oak hardwood flooring. Finish work goes slower than framing in.
All the exterior doors are installed now so we can lock up.

Terry set up a temporary ham radio staton so he could operate Field Day.
The purpose of Field Day is for ham radio operators to test their equipment under emergency conditions to be prepared to help in the event of a national disaster. The hams make as many contacts as possible in a 24 hour period using only emergency power like generators. Usually they go to a public park or shelter and put up temporary stations and antennas. Our construction site qualified because we don't have permanent power yet. He was happy to be able to contact some of his friends in Ohio.

June 9, 2007 Dry wall is up

This is the view of our house as you approach from the west corner of our property.

The siding and windows are finished.

The workers have moved inside out of the sun.

The dry wall is almost finished. Terry will be painting soon.

The kitchen has a ways to go before I'll be doing much cooking.



The tray ceiling in the back of the living room gives it more height.
All the other ceilings are 9 feet. Plenty of room for big fans.

Terry is loading more into the barn.

It sure is handy to have lots of storage space.

June 1, 2007 Siding's almost finished

Siding, roof and trim are almost finished.

Just in time because it rained today, the first day of hurricane season.

That's Philip Sheats, our contractor, doing a great job.

We've got wiring and insulation done.

May 28, 2007 We have windows and a roof!

This is the back of the house.

Master bdrm, 8 windows of sunroom & 3rd bdrm.

There's Marc at the front door.

He came to visit for Memorial Day weekend.

Marc is a great help.

He and Terry moved all our stuff from the storage locker into the barn.

Then Marc tried out the tractor.

Living room to the right. Dining room to the left.

All one big open room.

Gretchen's on the back porch.
It will be heated and air conditioned, so I call it my sunroom.
The window on the left is the pass through from the kitchen.

May 19, 2007 House is Dried In

It's beginning to look like a house.

Windows from left:

Guest Bdrm, Living room, Front door, Dining room, Utility room, Garage, Garage.

Back view:

Master Bdrm, Florida room, Ham Shack (computer room)

Living room with view out the front door.

The front yard is really dry because FL is in a drought,

over 12 inches behind the average rain fall for the year.

LThru the living room and Florida room out across the back yard to the barn.


Marilyn in the Florida room.

Terry sweeping out the garage.

Master bdrm and bath.

Just 4 days ago Philip was working on the roof.

While the door guy hung the Barn doors.

Barn interior with people door and drive thru door.

The contractor worked on the roof decking on Mon. & Tues.

And Terry nailed the OSB board on the house.

May 10 & 11 House is framed and roof trusses are up

Just 3 days ago all we had was a slab.

That's Joshua working on the top.

In only 1 more day the roof trusses were hoisted into place with a crane.

You can see in through the garage door.

The master bedroom is there on the back.

Front view

Ready for the doors and Hardy board siding.

May 5, 2007 House Slab is Ready for Framing

House slab from front porch.

30 yards of concrete in slab plus 17 yds. in footers for 94 tons.

That should hold us down in a hurricane.

Kitchen, corner of garage and master bedroom.


Barn from drive.
1200 sq ft.

Barn from woods.
Gretchen's ready to move in.

Terry's proud of his part of the work.