Thank Goodness for Family

Another busy week at the little river house...


Martin and his framing crew put a few more days in and they have maybe another day or two to finish up completely.  

They are happy, hard workers. It's so fun to hear them singing loudly along with their traditional mariachi music.  They also set up a little cook fire surrounded by some slapped together benches made from scrap lumber.  I think they cook tortillas with some fillings and corn.  Someone likes to spit out their corn kernel husks all over the place.  I know this because my job this week has been to sweep, sweep and then sweep again.  

















They've finished the stairs to the bonus room over the garage, the shed dormers on the roof, and put all of the windows in.  They look so good!

The fireplace wall.

The plumber came out and did his rough in.  There's now a tub/shower combo sitting in place in the hall bathroom.  The master will have a walk in tile shower and an an antique claw foot tub (a subject for a later blog) and the guest room bath will have a tile shower.  So that's why there is only one fixture in place now.  It has to go in now because it's too big to fit once the drywall and doors are in.




Mike's brother, Joe, came out all day on Friday to rough in the built in vacuum system.  He used to do that for a living, so he helped us out so much by installing all the piping in the crawl space etc..   It's not pleasant work.  He did say we had a very nice crawl space to work in.  It's tall enough to sit up in and there weren't any rocks.  For that he'd have to give  thanks to the grandkids who cleaned out the foundation before the floor was put on.

A little Sonic lunch on the back porch.

Daughter, Codi and the kids all came out too. Mike had hired grandson, Palmer to do some work out there.  He kept him busy for two days cleaning up and pulling nails out of scrap 2x4s so they could be reused as blocking for the reclaimed barn wood siding.  

The other kids got put to work loading the garbage trailer at both our house and Uncle Pat's.   They never complained and just worked hard.  Such good kids!



The well drillers were at Pat and Donna's this week, their windows were all put in and  framing is about completed.  




We noticed as we came through the cut on Freezeout Hill the other day, that you could actually see the houses and barns from there.   (If you know exactly where to look..)

Right in the middle of this pic is a white dot.  That is Pat's barn.  It right at the foot of the hills, dead center. That's us!

Life at the river is busy, but so beautiful.  This week we saw deer and pheasant, we watched the horse guy cut his hay field and took some time to enjoy a few beautiful sunsets.  
Life is good.