Tis the Season

We seemed to have neglected two very important people on this blog. Moe and Mia (they might not be people but they sure think they are). The cats are getting ready for Christmas. Mia is keeping an eye on the presents and they are both inspecting every box they get (the one in the picture is from Petsmart, just for them). The bottom pictures are from last year's Christmas. They enjoyed the basket that Alida and Bill got them (unbeknownst to them) and the box of peanuts very much.

Quote-unquote Pre-drywall Walkthrough

On Friday we had what's known as a "pre-drywall walkthrough." They call it this in the construction biz because it's your chance as a homeowner to walk through the house with the building superintendent before the drywall is installed. You can check out things like the wiring, the air seal, and the insulation before it's all covered up with drywall. Our pre-drywall walkthrough was especially quick because they'd already installed the drywall. So our options are to have them remove all the drywall so we can look behind it, or take their word for it that they did it right. It looks like we're going with the latter. The good news is, the superintendent that we met with said that from this point forward, it should be about 8 to 10 weeks until the house is done, which would get us in it in mid to late February. That's pretty cool.

Anyway, here's how it looked on the outside yesterday:















And here's me inside the house for the pre-drywall walkthrough. Notice how good the drywall looks.

My latest project.

I am finally getting around to creating an online photo album from the wedding. Unfortunately, we can't get a hold of our photographer, we think he was deployed to Iraq and we can't get to all of our photos on the DVD he gave us. So, it might be a long time before this thing gets finished.

We have neighbors

aka This House is a Lath Riot (Scott's suggestion for the name of this post). As you can see there is a lot of progress on the house. They added the fiberglass board to the outside of the house. The realtor calls it lath but I don't think it really is lath, I think lath is a plaster like substance that isn't used anymore. Anyway, if you look on the roof you can see that they have the clay tiles lined up to ready to be put in place. We should have our first official walk through sometime next week. We also have neighbors on the other side. We were sad to find out they will have a two story house so they will block any potential mountain views we had from our bedroom but the good news is that they did not choose the same floor plan as us. Below is the view you see as you drive into the development. That is the back of our house on the left. Someday there will be a house built on that gravel lot so you won't see the house from the entrance though.