June 19th, 2007
June 19th-WOW! What a day
I almost got tired just watching these guys work today! The "siders" were here bright and early, but they spent most of the day installing windows since Dave was here working with the trac-hoe to get the grading and the back fill done. So they would have seriously been in each others way…Fine with me though since everyone had more than enough to keep them busy!
We did find out yesterday that our chimneys are rotting from the top also…what a lovely way to start the week. Once again much worse on the East side of the house than the west…not sure why, but it must have something to do with weather exposure.
I got some pictures of the house so everyone can see what it all looks like…
Here is the house from the west side…looks haunted doesn’t it…
We are the Tyvek house now…
and our KUBOTA…
Things to note…our lovely french doors…and the skylights are in…WAHOO!
Troy is in Toronto…so not sure if you are checking in or not…but here is your BBQ area Troy…Too bad you do not have a BBQ yet…For those who have not heard our sad tale…we ordered a nice Coleman BBQ from Costco and when it was delivered it was very damaged, so we had to refuse delivery…long story short (sort of) but we had to redo the whole order and so now it will be a bit longer for it to arrive (again). But that is actually OK, as we do not have concrete yet anyway…
BTW–LOVIN’ this view minus (most of) Marjorie (the garbage pile)
This is the view from INSIDE the BBQ area…like say when Troy is in there checking on the ribs he is smoking or something…this is what he will see
Well sort of, I guess, there is a lot of landscaping to do back there!
This is the house from the street…still not much to look at eh?
Nice pile of cedar siding waiting to be installed…
Well that is not entirely true…my flowers are lovely these days…if not just a little overgrown…Here are my poppies Mom! Nice eh?? I do not think I have seen nicer poppies than these!!
This is the corner of the front rock wall…this actually looks much better in person than this photo captures…but for the gardening enthusiasts who were wondering how the flowers are doing…i include these tidbits for you
Let’s see…what else?? Well here is the front windows…to the untrained eye, these would appear to be the same windows as we have always had…but let me tell you about these new windows…they are the one finger windows…what I mean is they are like butter opening and closing…very nice! The screens are almost invisble so you do not really see them (which is a feature i never would have really thought made that big a difference) and also we had some of the ratios changed in terms of how much of the windows open. So these front windows used to be only the bottom third opened, we made them 50/50 so the whole bottom half opens…this will make a hige difference to how much air we get circulating through the house. All that , and supposedly we won’t freeze in the winter and i should see savings in my heating bill…We will see about that!. So lets take a vote…who thinks I am happy we did the windows?? You should have asked me that question earlier today when I had to watch these two old guys balance up on the toe of one foot in a 2 inch square space over a hampster tank and a rotating psychedelic light ball to get to the window in Brooklyn’s room. They told me it was fine though…maybe they were just being nice. They both said they had had teenagers before and in fact one has teenage grandchildren…Is this supposed to make me feel better??
They did get more than just these windows done today…
For some entertainment value…here are the kids…
This would be Rachael just getting home from the gym…
Jackie making her B’day party invitations tonight…
Brooklyn the night of her freshman Party
That is me crying…not her–she had a lot of fun!
OK…Here is Rachael normal…
Oh Yeah! We got our skylights installed today…so we officially have all the natural lighting we are going to get now…
Here are the french doors from the inside…
And the coup of the day…Laurie (YES Laurie) installed the deadbolt on the french door…just felt a little exposed last night without my plywood protection, so had to get that on today. Took me about an hour—but when I go to change the front door over to satin nickel hardware I will be SO MUCH FASTER. As you can probably tell, I am a little proud of myself
No handle…just a deadbolt (as it will have to come off to be painted at some point anyway–and the reality is, I do not want all the dirty sweaty hands that are around here these days touching my nice handles–so I will wait to put that on) I have fully copped to being the anal homeowner when I made them put a protective cover on the threshold of the door. I do not think it is too much to ask that they keep their muddy feet off my shiny new silver threshold. I am well aware that it will get marred…but I would like it to happen at a GREAT party or something…not by a mud covered steel toed boot
Man am I on a tear tonight…Troy needs to get home so I can use up my words on him
