Home Depot Trip Turned Bad

Since we started building the house, Home Depot is like our second home. Nick obviously makes numerous trips every day. Many times I will go with him or either he and Mr. Chuck will send me on quick trips to pick up something while they stay and work.

Well, last Monday was supposed to be one of those quick trips to Home Depot. Nick was working on the dormers, but had run out of OSB (kinda like thick plywood used for framing). He asked me to take the truck to Home Depot and ask someone to load up 10 pieces of OSB and bring it home. I was a bit skeptical, but then decided it shouldn't be too hard. Boy was I wrong. First, there was absolutely no men insight to help load the OSB up ( I am not saying that I am unable to load the wood, but it is pretty heavy). So, myself and 2 other women ended up loading the OSB onto the carrier. When it was time to load it on the truck, yet again no big strong men... But, I did know how Nick had loaded the OSB in the past, so I was okay with this part, until the workers decided they knew best..

From observing the OSB being loaded previously, the tailgate was always left up. So I told the workers to leave the tailgate up. Well, the 3 Home Depot workers insisted that it would not work and the tailgate must be let down and left down. So, I let them do what they thought best. After all, they do work at Home Depot, not me. But, when they told me it would be fine on the back of the truck without being tied down I became skeptical again. But I got in the truck and drove home.

This is when the trip turned really bad. I made a left turn onto Hwy 19 to head back to the house, but the OSB didn't quite make it! 4 pieces fell out onto the highway!! Luckily, they all landing perfectly in the turning lane.

I calmly called Nick and he came the rescue. Nick now jokes and says that it seems that when I don't want to do something, I manage to mess it up in the process of doing it!



The 10 pieces of OSB made it safely home

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Unfortunately, I was never able to get the internet working yesterday to upload all the pictures.

This week has been a little yucky weather wise which slowed progress a little. Nick has been working on the dormers for the house, but yesterday the roof was just too slick and wet to be working on it.

On an exciting note our metal for the roof came in yesterday. Wohoo!! Also Nick has been working hard inside when it becomes dark wiring the house. I never new how hard it would be to decide where all to put light switches, lights, and outlets!

On another note.. this year is my first year working a holiday. It is very weird being away from my family on thanksgiving. And hospital thanksgiving dinner is definitely not the best! But too see my patients brighten up and smile when I brought them a special piece of cake or pie today made it all worth it! Tom night after work I will be able to get on the road to celebrate thanksgiving at the farm. I can't wait!!


Keep looking for updates and pics!!

Good intentions..

Well, I really did have good intentions today to update our blog with new pictures and new interesting stories but the internet is not working. I am updating now from my phone, but unfortunately I cannot upload pictures. I believe it must have something to do with the work that is being done from the renovations upstairs. Hopefully, I will have internet soon!

Check back for updates!

Porch

Walls Framed and Roof Trusses!!

I know it has been a while since I have added new pictures to the blog, but there is so much going on! Since back filling the basement, the decking for the main floor is done, the walls have been framed and now the roof trusses are in the process of going up! Today was the first day of the roof trusses going up. Thankfully we had much needed help! Unfortunately, I got to the house after all the help was gone. Well, other than the dogs! But I did take pictures of the last 2 trusses for the day being put up.

Slowly but Surely

One more thing that I have learned with the house building process is that there are many days that you (or I should say Nick and Mr. Chuck) work sun up till sun down and at the end of the day it still looks as if there are no changes made to the house. This weekend was an example of this. On Saturday, I was the "go-getter" all day. We did work and work, but it just kept looking as if nothing was getting done. Right before dark, they decided to board up the bottom of the basement windows. Even though the process probably took a whole 15 minutes, it finally looked as if we made progress!



On Sunday, they were able to finish up the small things that had to be done before putting the decking up, and also put plywood on the basement walls.

and Even More Dirt

After a total of 14 (I think) truck loads of dirt, we have finally back filled the basement!!






Thankfully, Mr. Mike Ellington came out to help move all of the dirt and backfill with his tractor which has a front end loader. Nick says that he wants a front end loader for "ole blue", but I am a little weary that if he did get one, we would have no trees or dirt left on our land!