Our new neighborhood, Conantum, holds a fall harvest festival every year and last year Daphne and I attended to have our first chance to meet a lot of people from the neighborhood. One person we met, Carl, had built a new house further down the road a number a years ago and had some advice for us. He told us to visit the site every day so that we could catch any mistakes early, while they were still easy to fix.

Well, this is a challenge for two reasons. First, I do not have access to a car more than two weekdays, so I can not visit every day. And second, Daphne can’t really visit at all except on weekends and I would not be able to spot a mistake, while she would see something wrong right away.

Well, Daphne visited the site this Saturday morning and did a walk through and noticed that the upstairs bathroom walls (which were just put in a few days ago), reflects an out of date design. Remember all those “days since we moved a wall” updates. Well, the upstairs bathroom was where we moved the last wall.

The problem is likely that not all the plans on site that the construction crew are using are up to date. The architect says that she will fix this next week. Meanwhile, the upstairs bathroom walls need to be removed and put in the correct places (they are not load bearing). Below are the old bathroom design (left), which is what they framed, and the new bathroom design (right), which is what we want.

Meanwhile, we went to the site this Saturday to pull more invasive plants and to go kayaking on the river before it got too hot. To fit all this in, we arrived at 7am, worked a little and then took a breakfast break on the second floor.

We ended up working for a few hours before we called it quits and brought out the kayaks. Here is the pile of oriental bittersweet and buckthorn that we removed just this outing.

Instead of the usual picture of the outside of the house, here is a picture of the foundation from the old garage.

If you look closely, you will not see any foundation because it was removed on Thursday. This weeks construction video is very short since most of the week they were working inside (and I have not moved the camera inside yet). But if you watch to the far right in the video you will see them remove the old garage foundation.

All of my house pictures this week are interior shots. The outside has not changed much at all.

This is the first floor. I am standing in corner in the pantry facing the dining room (left) and living room which is past the opening in the wall and left of the stairs.

This is the first floor from the corner in the master bedroom. You can see the game room on the right (the big window openings). The ladders are all in the walk-in closet (isn’t that where everyone stores their ladders?)

This is the second floor. I am standing at the top of the stairs looking into the family room, or today only, the breakfast nook.

And here I am standing in the middle of the family room looking back towards the stairs and the front bedroom.

Finally, here is the second floor again. I am standing in the corner of the back bedroom looking towards the bathroom (whose walls are wrong).

And finally (really this time), here is the waterfront taken from ground level. We have to walk across that mid flat to find deep enough water to launch the boats.

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