Sunday, July 25

Today I am grateful for:

Beautiful weather. Warm and sunny. We had a bit of rain in the evening.

Our friends came over and we tackled the groundwork for the walkway on the other side of the house. SO, as it stands, we are at the stage where the walkways are all pegged out, level, and have a layer of gravel in them. We now need to go get a packer.

That I felt more comfortable with everything today. They didn't show up at 8 in the morning, leaving me to feel like I was lazy and uncommitted to my own project. They got here just after lunch, I got up so that I could be ready when they got here, and we all started together. This makes me feel like I am actually a PART of the work being done.

The wife I mentioned before didn't seem to be flirting with my husband today, which is nice.

The guy that this couple has been bringing with them (he wants to learn how to work on his own house, and he knows that if he helps us, we'll help him) seemed to loosen up today. He's been very quiet other times, but today he was joking around a little. I think he was just waiting to see if we were "joke" people.

The work on the path didn't take too long with that many people helping.

I picked raspberries, and got about 8 cups. We might make some jam (for my sweetie, really).

Then we watched "Queen and Slim"", which was good, but not a "fun" movie.

Saturday:

I went to see River, and that was nice. I spent some time with the new horse that came to the barn, just giving him some positive attention. He seems to be settling in okay. River got all washed off in the last rain, so he no longer has tree sap in his mane.

We worked on the pathway on the East side of the house, and it's to the point where we need to pack it down. Tomorrow our friends are coming and we'll work on the path on the West side.

Our journey with the house so far.

Some of you may recall that we are working on the house. What we did, is three summers ago we moved an old farmhouse onto our property. We were living in a trailer that needed to be torn down because that was the place we needed to put the new house. We tore the trailer down, and lived in the house on blocks. Then we dug the basement and got it ready to put the house on it. Then we moved the house onto the basement. Then we began building the addition. So here are some pictures.

This is the trailer. I couldn't find a complete image.




This is the old house being moved onto our property.




Us tearing down the trailer.



I will continue in the next post. I think I have too many pictures.

House journey continued.

Tearing down the trailer.



Digging the basement. The tree in this picture was the tree beside the trailer in the first picture. It's still there, now beside our new/old house.




beginning the walls in the basement.



The styrofoam frame of the basement.



We filled the forms with concrete, then moved the house onto the basement.



Then the next year we began work on the addition.





We closed it in and left it for the winter of 2020. This year, we have the whole addition up, put windows in it, have insulation on the outside, the strapping is ready to attach the new vinyl siding, and the electrical is mostly done inside. The main part of the old house has not changed much inside or out. At some point, we will be making doors in the exterior wall of the old house to access the addition from the inside.