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.

April 26, 2007 Barn Going UP

That's a piliated woodpecker in the front yard.

Click for a closer view.

Here's the barn progress.

House foundation's in.

House and barn from road.

April 21, 2007 Footer is in

Barn site is starting to see some action.

Foundation took 10 yards of concrete.

Finally Terry has some help.

The contractor got the house footers poured.

That will be the front porch.

Terry has been clearing more of the woods.

This shot is of the barn site from the woods toward the drive.

Marilyn has the landscaping started.

We planted our first tree -
the Ashe Magnolia smells great.


Ashe Magnolia blossom is about 6 inches.

April 10, 2007 Ready for the foundations

From the road to the house.

Barn to road. Ready to go.

Barn site.

To compare to 3/12/07 post scroll down to last photo.

Terry sure has made progress in a month.

House site due west of drive.

The big pines are gone and we're ready to pour the foundation.

Compare to 2nd to last photo.

Stump grinding

Front corner.

Ready to plant some Southern Magnolia, Camellias and Azaleas

to brighten the woods and front yard.

April 7, 2007

Gretchen found an armadillo hole in the woods on our property.

We haven't seen the armadillo yet.

March 29, 2007 Tackling the Big Stuff

32 horse power can push around some big trees

Chain Saw Terry

Cut 'em down

Pull 'em out

Making progress on the East lot

About 1/4 done on the clearing already.

House isn't started yet.

Marilyn's allowing 1 year.

March 24, 2007 Still Clearing Site

From the barn to the road - 360 feet

Burn pile's growing

Terry needs a break

Hornets' nest in our woods

Marilyn's safe in snake boots