Thursday, August 24, 2006

Roof construction

Well, I know you have all been on the edge of your seats, just waiting for me to post the 'construction' piece of the roof. Well, your wait is over! There are TONS of pictures,so I am going to post a few of the most interesting. Many of these show the many people who helped us out along the way. Most notably, we are SO THANKFUL for Loren, Jim, Steve, Ross and many others that were part of the adventure.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Roof tear down

As many of you know, we have been wanting to put a new roof on the house. Well, for the last 3 weeks or so, we have been doing just that. We began tearing the old roof off the house at the end of July. Of course, we have found many exciting treasures. To begin, we discovered 3 layers of composite roofing under the existing metal roof. There was also a colony (herd, horde, group, gaggle, hertle?) of bats living in the attic crawl space (insert "ewww" or "gross" or another applicable comment here...)! We counted at least 35 of them coming out one night. We also found an old, abandoned GI Joe - which probably just fell out of Bear's pocket. We all know how much he used to love GI Joe's! Anyway, the scariest part is the live, melted wire we found after removed the old insulation. Needless to say, we are now 2/3 of the way to new electrical wiring all through the house. Expensive endevour, but well worth the cost. So, for now, I'll post the demolition pictures for you to enjoy. We are still doing some finish work, but I'll get some current pictures up soon of the almost finished product.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

The two boys...



I know it's been awhile so I'll be doing some catch-up on the old blog. This is just a short one with some pics from yesterday. Alex and Ethan were playing and wanted to "sleep". As you can see, it was too cute!