Waiting.......

It seems we are at the point right now where we are waiting for a lot of things. In a couple of weeks, we are expecting all of our siding and trim from Washington to arrive.

In about another month, we should have the rest of the windows and all entry doors delivered. Getting the windows straightened out and ordered has been a major task in itself. We still cannot believe something could be so difficult. But it seems that, for the most part, we have the rest of the windows ordered barring any more problems.

We are waiting to get the master bathroom tub in before completing the framing of the walls of the bathroom. That should happen within the next two weeks.

In about a week we should have the BIS fireplace insert delivered. Once this arrives we will get the fireplace chase built and then the unit and double-wall packed pipe installed.

And, last but not least, believe it or not we are still waiting for the roof to be completed!!! Although it is not completed, we have actually started to catch rain. Gutters and down spouts are in place and hooked up to the drain pipe connected to the rain catch tank. That's the good news. After a rather heated phone call to the roofer last week wondering when we are going to wrap this roof up, work still continues to progress slowly. Metal fascia work remains as well as the rest of the snow jacks and the ridge caps.

Labor day weekend found us working on the great room east wall. We removed all of the OSB sheeting covering the rough openings of all of the windows. We did some more framing for the upper arched windows, insulated the wall and ran the remaining wiring needed for the great room. After all that was completed, we wrapped the wall with Tyvek, and installed two of the lower windows. The large center one is going to require a little help to lift it into place.

This weekend was spent wrapping more of the house with Tyvek. The rest of the time we were laying out interior walls and getting the plates fastened to the floor. A lot of time was taken discussing some possible changes as to the location of walls and one rather large change would be the location of the back door. This would make for a even roomier kitchen. The jury is still out on that whole change.

And just a quick garden update. The produce is really starting to rippen with tomatoes starting to become almost overwhelming!!!!