Long Over Due Pictures.

Today, we had to run to Erie for therapy for Tim. He feels like it is beginning to help which is a great relief to both of us and makes the trip totally worth it. It was a nice trip, quite different from the last one when the wind was blowing so hard that high profile vehicles were struggling. It was also single digit cold. Today it was in the thirties and sunny and calm. 

(That alone made me feel calmer.)

Anyway, we traveled back home, taking our time. Tim stopped at a Home Depot and got an estimate on the LP SmartSide that he wants to put on the house.  We weren't ready to buy for a couple of weeks yet because, right now, we are working on the rough wiring. 

It is not a hard job. Just tedious. 

You can see the wire run in the foreground as well as the back wall. 

This is what will be our bedroom. 

I am taking the picture from what will be our pantry, a walk in room. 

To the left of our bedroom is the spare bedroom.

Directly across from our pantry is the spot for the washer and dryer. 

and behind that, the bathroom. 

It is pretty hard to describe what you are seeing. This is a Kohler tub that we bought from well-to-do folk who were ripping out the bathroom of their fancy lake house to make a step in shower for their aging mother. The tub is porcelain covered cast iron, heavy as sin, and in perfect shape. We got it for $100. We were shocked to find that they sell for $1000 new. We lucked out on that one alright.  It is one of those things we set aside for the house a couple years ago, and it has waited patiently all this time. 

Before we installed the sliding glass doors, we tractored that tub through the opening. It weighs 300 lbs, so we loaded it into the tractor bucket, pulled in as close to the house as we dared and pulled the tub through. It was still a big job. 

Anyways, the sliding doors go into the livingroom. One of the final touches to the house (and 'final touches' are a llllooooooonnng way off...) will be a sun room (conservatory for you Brits) built on the outside of those doors. It will face the west, and give us a nice sunset view.

This is a view of the killer table. The table got moved back, and no one really paid attention to the fact that the sawhorse leg was sticking out to trip unsuspecting old ladies. The crock pot was not sitting on the table at the time, luckily. 

(And yes, DrumMajor, I fixed it. Your description of a broken hip made me cringe.) 

 We are also putting up foam insulation on the outside of the building (it will go under the siding.) The area is much windier than in town and we want a snug house that will hold the heat in winter. It is going up lickety split, and we are doing that as the weather permits. The worksite is extremely muddy, and the clay makes it pretty slippery. 

So we drove home looking at houses. We've decided on either dark gray with white trim or dark blue with white trim, I think, but that is subject to change. 

Note that these pictures are not at all what our house will look like. I just wanted to give you an idea of what the colors would look like. (I want blue. Tim wants gray.) Our house will be a plain 24 x 48 foot 'box', all on one floor, There is a full basement underneath and there will be a pulldown attic stair to a storage upstairs.

You can see the sliders here that will at some point have the sunporch built out front.

You can also see the door to the basement. 

To the left of the basement, we will haul and mound some of the dirt pile (from the basement excavation) and slope away from the house for drainage. It will make a nice space for landscaping with shrubs and a flower garden.  There will be 3 additional small windows to put in, one over the kitchen sink, one in the bathroom, and a small one for the computer 'cubby' that is off the livingroom. 

It is a small two bedroom house, all on one floor (except for the basement). It is the right thing for this time of our lives. We bought the property probably 7 years ago. We have been planning this in our heads ever since.  To see it coming together, step by step, is very exciting for the two of us.