Category: FAMILY

My mom is in town for a few days so we took a visit to the house. Its noisy during the week — there were at least three crews working on various things and big fans running. But we got to see the house and the view.

Here is my mom with Daphne on the porch.

One crew was working on caulking the outside seams. Here is one of the workers.

The plumber is working on all the drain pipes (and the radon pipe). As I mentioned before, he has taken over the master bedroom to keep all his pieces. It was light enough to get a picture today.

This week they will put the shingles on the garage and the breezeway. They will also dig out the foundation for the generator and the heat exchangers. I hope to catch it all on the construction camera.

It actually happened a week ago, but I kept forgetting to take a picture of the damage. Here is what the workers noticed last Monday.

The good news is the the culprit signed their name. The even better news is that this will eventually covered up by insulation and then interior walls. By the way, I am wondering whether letting visitors (and maybe workers) sign the inside of the siding is a practice that I should expand.

Meanwhile, here is what the house looked like this weekend. I took this picture from the Northwest corner so you can see where walls are, and where walls are not. Right now they are working on the floor to the second floor.

The water is still very high although it has gone down a little since the last rain storm (last Thursday). Here is our waterfront, without the construction equipment in the shot.

We pulled invasives on Sunday — we will be doing that most weekends all year long. Then on Monday we went for a 4 mile (round trip) kayak trip up river from our house, to the Route 117 boat landing and then back.

Finally, here is this past week’s construction video. It only covers three days (no work on Thursday because of the rain and Friday because, well, just because). Also, I have sped this up by a factor of 2x to keep it shorter.