tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295803285854281722024-02-02T00:42:30.518-07:00The Little River HouseWe're building a house on the river in rural Idaho....this is going to be quite an adventure!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-40332448982516910682020-04-05T15:47:00.003-06:002020-04-05T15:47:34.334-06:00Shake It Up<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm still trying to figure out what day is the best for a weekly blog update. I'll try Sundays for awhile and see how that goes. At this point, with the Covid-19 pandemic and an order by our Governor to stay home except for essential things, I could blog any day, they are all the same to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been so crazy to come home from our mission and not be able to do the normal things we do. Go out to eat, visit our grandkids, hug friends and family, attend church, go to the temple, shop whenever and wherever it pleases me, take Ollie the River Dog to the groomers, and so on. I know that I'll not take those things for granted again!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mike modeling some of our son Scottt's new <br />merchandise...looking good! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been doing yard work, filling bird feeders, and working on other projects. We've been able to stop and get take out food a couple of times, been to the grocery store a couple of time, and I even went to my cousin's to get my hair cut. I've made face masks from left over fabric and we use word and phrases like: social distancing, quarantine, stay home..stay safe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through it all, I feel calm and safe and that's because of my faith. This weekend was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints biannual general conference. It was so comforting to see and hear from a modern day prophet, President Nelson and other as they helped us focus on faith over fear by "hearing" our Savior.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sewing facemarks whilst watching a session of conference</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our kids and grandkids were over today and we had to all stay six feet apart. We were practicing physical distancing but definitely not SOCIAL distancing! It's so good to see them even if we can't give them big hugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for now.. Stay Home..Stay Safe and soon this will be over and we can move on with life...maybe as better people than we were before Covid-19. We will be appreciative of our medical heroes, our families, time spent with others, and we may even be happy to hug strangers on the street!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Trails!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-47804289188539793492020-03-25T17:24:00.002-06:002020-03-25T17:24:27.685-06:00Back on the River!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome to The Little River House blog! It's been three years since I've done any blogging on this site, which is crazy. For the last year and a half, my hubs and I have been in England serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and I kept a blog: palmersenglandmission.blogspot.com during that time that was specific to our mission. If you're curious, please go check it out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd like to continue to blog, so decided to start up this blog once again, so here we go...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived home after being whisked out of England due to the Coronovirus, or Covid-19 as it's now being called. They sent all senior missionaries and the young missionaries with health issues home very quickly around the middle of March. Once home, we were all required to self isolate for two weeks! I couldn't think of anywhere I'd rather self isolate than right here at The Little River House. It brings me so much joy and peace to be here. It's my heaven on earth, for sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our son and his family (and dog and cat) have been living here and taking care of our dog, Ollie and the homestead. They did a fantastic job! We will be forever grateful to them for all they did to keep things running and for loving our little sidekick as much as we do. We're sorry they had to move to their new house on such short notice, as we had to come home eight weeks earlier than planned. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And now the "girls"...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived in the dark of night, but it still felt wonderful to drive down our dirt lane, pass Pat and Donna's place, pull up to the house and walk in to our home once again! Life is grand!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at this little surprise the kids left us on our bed.<br />Such jokers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's trying to decide if he still loves me or not.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've spent the last ten days sorting things out here. We've been unpacking our luggage, bringing things down from the barn that we stored while we were gone, setting up internet, cell phones and catching up with friends and family as much as possible. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how our box we sent home from England<br />looked when it arrived. Needless to say the post office "dropped and ran"!<br />Luckily only one little item was broken.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weather has been mostly sunny and just a little chilly. The river is running about normal. In years past, the river has been very high this time of year. They didn't have as much snow this year, so the run off is either behind schedule or not going to be as significant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I look forward to Spring and all the life that it brings..new leaves on the trees, new babies for the ducks, geese, pheasants, quail and new projects here at the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of our upcoming projects include re-decorating the library, an update to the bonus room, new veggie plot, and a lot of new landscaping. It's going to be a busy spring and summer! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting the four and wheat out from our food storage in the crawl space.<br />We might need it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had to resort to buying a roll of industrial style toilet paper!<br />It's all we could find...anywhere...at all. Just "Say No" to hoarding!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An important note: The world is in the middle of a pandemic. The Covid-19 flu. Today the governor of Idaho issued a stat at home order for the next three weeks. Idaho is one of the last states to be infected but it's numbers are growing quickly. So many businesses are going under, our son was laid off his job in Alaska, the economy is tanking. And who knew that everyone would want to hoard toilet rolls? Stay safe, keep 6 feet apart and hopefully we can all ride this out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Trails!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-50289745906624841302017-03-22T20:06:00.001-06:002017-03-22T20:06:33.527-06:00Chalk Paint to the Rescue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been way to lax with updating the Little River house blog. It was a long, cold, snowy winter. We set records for how much snowfall we had and for how long it was on the ground. Sometimes I really wondered if Spring would ever come. Winter may have been long but I really didn't mind. It was so beautiful here and we were cozy and warm in our new home. But...now it's time to catch up and tell you about all the projects we have in mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First up, a redo of this nice little sofa that I bought from brother and sister in law's place, Cherry Consignment Furniture, in Meridian. I love the style and the tufting but the fabric was a green and brown swirly pattern that I didn't love. I've always wanted to have a sofa or settee at the end of the bed that looks at the television. We've lived in three houses since I bought the couch and it never fit where I intended it too. Finally, it fits right where I want it but the fabric was not working at all! I toyed with the idea of having recovered which would cost me about 450 dollars and I really had so many other things to spend the money on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few months ago, my friend came out to visit and see the house. When I showed her the sofa and told her my dilemma, she said she had painted a chair in her house with chalk paint and that it had turned out so good. I was amazed that you could paint a piece of upholstered furniture...who knew!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I toyed around with it for awhile and finally tried a little section on the back. I figured I was pretty safe..if I didn't like it, no one would see it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't like it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The color was too dark and it felt rough and stiff. I pushed the sofa back against the bed and just didn't look at it for awhile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fast forward to today. I was at BiMart and saw a nice shade of light gray chalk paint and it just seemed like it was now or never. I thought "hey, if I don't like it for sure this time, then I'll go ahead and have it recovered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It went on really easily and in about an hour, I had the entire couch painted. It only took one coat and it would of been okay with me if the pattern had subtly shown through, but it didn't.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCqFbznEBAkzjF5VI0R1nIkzgXTuFU31eV6GkOJjgg1yEFRpS1WZYlO9sSZHewis0700lH-B6sG6uRoGU9KNwQOJwIGrS_o6MCDxX8HWaKlzlf36W97MttrLGVgYHDiuWv01ojQLPJ8PA/s1600/IMG_5456.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCqFbznEBAkzjF5VI0R1nIkzgXTuFU31eV6GkOJjgg1yEFRpS1WZYlO9sSZHewis0700lH-B6sG6uRoGU9KNwQOJwIGrS_o6MCDxX8HWaKlzlf36W97MttrLGVgYHDiuWv01ojQLPJ8PA/s320/IMG_5456.jpg" width="240" /></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I loved the color! The fabric did seem really rough at first and then I remembered my friend had told me to sand it lightly when it was completely dry. I sanded it and it made it so much smoother. It's certainly not the softest, cushiest couch I've ever sat on, but it's not stiff and unyielding. It has some give and feels sort of like old leather and looks like suede.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bottom line is that it looks 100 percent better and I can live with the stiffer feel of the fabric. I don't think I would do this to a piece that you plan to sit on a lot or that you want to be really cozy and squishy. I do think it's a perfect solution for occasional chairs and if you have something you don't want to spend a lot of money on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thirteen dollars for a can of paint versus 450 dollars to recover....you decide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Master Bedroom is still a work in progress and I'll have a future post showing more of the entire room when it's complete. I'll be blogging about some of our winter fun, the arrival of spring, and our solar panel project over the next few days and weeks. So come on back to check in on The Little River House!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas is my very favorite time of year. I love the lights, scents, excitement, and the warm feelings Christmas brings. It's SO festive!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made the BELIEVE sign a couple of years ago. The other side says BLESSED. The old ladder and stone crock I bought in Germany. The fat little snowman is a Costco find from about 10 years ago.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few years ago I decided I just had to have an outdoor nativity. Mike and I worked together to make this one. I drew it out on plywood, Mike cut it out and I painted it all white. It normally has a big star hanging over it, but we haven't got to that yet.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY2XLsA9VGYep-yjNrKnS4GCcIDIYe-BjmD0WS5F3cI9hz1_4zO-6KWxusxIJCGxmI8uvIQ0ZRkTJK6xb409ITurCaHopXSLOR8-2rDS9xAkpLE3ER6g_s2MsKcW0Cz0KOfQUptQeC5E/s1600/IMG_4548.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY2XLsA9VGYep-yjNrKnS4GCcIDIYe-BjmD0WS5F3cI9hz1_4zO-6KWxusxIJCGxmI8uvIQ0ZRkTJK6xb409ITurCaHopXSLOR8-2rDS9xAkpLE3ER6g_s2MsKcW0Cz0KOfQUptQeC5E/s400/IMG_4548.jpg" width="300" /></a><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come on in! The antique German sled by the front door has an old pair of skates from the Netherlands hanging on it and an old cow bell from Austria. It's so fun to use some of the things we brought home with us after living in Germany for three years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a neutral color palette in the great room, with just a little green and a lot of silver and white sparkle. The J-O-Y sign came from inspiration on Pinterest. I bought the letters and the snowflake at a craft store. Then I just nailed them to one of our scrap pieces of old barn wood that we used for our siding. I felt I needed something large and wanted to do something other than a wreath. It fills the space pretty well and it makes me smile!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our tree seemed a little too short for the vaulted room, so Mike built a box out of our old barn wood to put the tree on. I put some batting around to look like indoor snow and now the tree looks like we just cut it down and brought it in the house. I love the rustic box and it looks great with the barn wood J-O-Y sign, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went a little more traditional in the kitchen and dining area. Red and white looks so festive and fresh. The hand embroidered table cloth is a find from a German flea market. I recently painted the old wooden toolbox white and filled it with glittery red apples and greenery. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hutch is filled with Christmas dishes and a Santa Claus village that the grandkids all look forward to seeing each year.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAfga4lBqF4Bhed14tQtezKCGL_wooCOPTkAPHC6Ee4Sl37_OdT2qF_EX995TG35aMfbFYCGsaZOROzfReLdIazH73dd40Ius0lTsHIbH4hvqBz16zDLS0pWHxt64KF3mgM0_vtbHHgc/s1600/IMG_4588.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAfga4lBqF4Bhed14tQtezKCGL_wooCOPTkAPHC6Ee4Sl37_OdT2qF_EX995TG35aMfbFYCGsaZOROzfReLdIazH73dd40Ius0lTsHIbH4hvqBz16zDLS0pWHxt64KF3mgM0_vtbHHgc/s320/IMG_4588.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWf6cE9_bU_GS-bhKNhw6HjzBH2icppjyqXCggxyo1gdJH73EBWqfUe3nBy-3EqxtNB7oa8S4G0M5Ca8PsWFSK3v2goiOUPMtPjJVLisVaYVlUntMhhEej-IlJZLZm96dhHGZtLulTcJA/s1600/IMG_4589.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWf6cE9_bU_GS-bhKNhw6HjzBH2icppjyqXCggxyo1gdJH73EBWqfUe3nBy-3EqxtNB7oa8S4G0M5Ca8PsWFSK3v2goiOUPMtPjJVLisVaYVlUntMhhEej-IlJZLZm96dhHGZtLulTcJA/s320/IMG_4589.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Too many stockings for the fireplace, so i put them on the staircase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bonus room at the top of the stairs...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This room is still so bare, but really..what grandkid wouldn't love to spend the night here under a glowing Christmas tree? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for now. Next year, I'll expand the decorating into the guest room and the master bedroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you enjoyed your Christmas tour through The Little River House. We wish you a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ed, the excavator, brought in tons of dirt from the ponds and pushed dirt around, dug up huge amounts of russian olive trees and cleaned out brush, filled in a huge hole etc....</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the pile Ed cleaned out. The bonfire will have to wait until winter.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike had about decided to wait and just do all the landscaping himself early next spring. I was sorely disappointed. I was hoping to see some green around here before then. And finally, after much thought, he decided to bite the bullet and let the professionals do it. Yay! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Mike is still so busy with finishing up siding the barn and wiring the barn. He also has all the exterior painting to do and lets's not even revisit the garage full of boxes again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He called Mike at Red Leaf Landscaping. They did the backyard at our house in Eagle and we really like their work. He and his wife are a great team and really know their stuff. They came out and spent over an hour walking the property with us and then came up with a great plan and one that we felt was worth every penny. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They came on a Monday and by Thursday evening they had fine graded all the way down to the river, put in the sprinkler system and planted ten large trees and about twenty bushes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We wanted to line our driveway with red maples to match Pat and Donna's, but that will be on the five year plan. We were able to get four pretty good sized ones in and then we will just add a couple more each year until the driveway is done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They will come back and add a few more trees and bushes in the spring...the ones that they felt would either transplant better then or that they'd be able to have a better choice when selecting the ones we want. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was dreaming for months of putting a clump birch in the circle, but the landscapers said it was too close to the septic system and so they convinced me to go with this. It's really nice.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Travis came out for a few days and got the barn wired. Let there be light in the barn! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mark finished with all of the lap siding and Mike has just the front of the barn left to side in the reclaimed barn wood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He also finally got the house painted. We went with a medium shade of grey siding and a dark grey (it's actually called Urbane Bronze from Sherwin Williams) for the trim. I was so used to seeing it that tan color that the siding comes in that it's taking a little getting used to seeing grey next to the barn wood. We know the barn wood will weather to several shades of grey and brown, so I think it going to look really nice as the house ages a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can you believe how much my other half gets done!? He also finished building the rustic farm table I have longed for ever since we lived in Europe. I searched for three years for the perfect one and came home empty handed. Mike said he could build on and lo and behold, he finally did!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It turned out amazing! It's eight feet long and the top is made of two inch thick planks that in their previous life were outdoor bleachers at a local high school. Dreams do come true.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We stained the legs quite dark and left the top in it's natural colors.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike trapped a gopher and Ollie was VERY interested in the whole process. Maybe he'll figure out how to do what he was bred to do, and go gopher hunting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I'll leave you with this...who says watching grass grow isn't exciting?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I woke up yesterday morning and for the first time I really felt like I was waking up in MY home. It's been one month since our move in day and it's been crazy! We still have workers here almost every day. I feel like I have this big extended family that pops in and out. As you can see in the photo above, Mike finished up with the barnwood on the house and the lap siding and board and bat siding is almost complete. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">he sider is about ready to move to the barn and get that sided next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Great news! After almost six weeks, the tile setter is finished! He did a fantastic job, but wow...six weeks! The showers are beautiful and I love the flat pebble stone floors in both of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Master Bath walk in shower. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I've tried and tried to get a good picture with no luck. I'll have to find a contortionist to come take a better one. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found these cute little initial plaques to put over the hooks. That way Mike doesn't steal my towel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The house is still bare. Not much in the way of decor yet. That's because the garage looks like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's my other furniture and decor items...somewhere in that mess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So here are a few interior shots, no judging! It will be awhile before it looks all put together and I'd like to blog about each room as it transforms. Anyway, consider these the "before" pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike, son Travis and Mike's friend, Kelly have been wiring the barn. That required taking a lot of stuff out of the barn. Yes...the Beverly Hillbillies do live here.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Travis putting his electrician skills to good use.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Ed and the landscapers have been getting the yard area all ready for sprinklers, grass bushes and trees. It's pretty complicated since we have quite a bit of slope down to the river. It's hard to decide how much of the overgrown trees and bushes to take out and how much to leave in. I like the natural look and a little seclusion from the river, but the view is so beautiful. Hopefully we can find a good compromise. Eventually we'd like to have grass all the way down and a little sand brought in to have near the edge. The problem is that the edge of the river varies according to the height of the water, which changes from season to season. Like so much of the rest of the house, this will take a few years and some patience, but it's going to be so nice!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We had reason to celebrate last Sunday. We had the first family dinner at the new house and celebrated Mike and Vella's birthdays. What better way to celebrate than for Uncle Pat to pull out the barrel train and give the kiddies a ride!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that's about it for now. The crisp days of fall have been occurring more frequently, the leaves are turning and the shadows are longer. Happy October from the Little River House..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fist of all let me remind you, the house is not finished. It's still very much a work in progress. I've been getting up at the crack of dawn to run down the hall to the one and only bathroom that has a working shower in it, to get ready for the day before the workers all start showing up. We still have a tile setter, painter, siders, HVAC, landscapers, plumbers, inspectors etc..all doing final touches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you remember last time I teased you about a surprise from Pat and Donna...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well it was pretty fantastic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was driving to the house a couple of weeks ago and they had the road blocked and were putting up the big iron gate that is like the one Pat and Donna had at their last place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's big and heavy and of course it would make some great photos for the blog. So I pulled over, got out and starting snapping a few pics. Donna came out and tried to convince me I could go around the back of her house, no need to wait, it would be a long time until the road was clear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No thanks, I said. Just enjoying the view. She finally said well darn, you just spoiled your surprise! We wanted you to drive up and see it when it was all done! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I saw they were hoisting up some initials for each side of the gate. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">M C on one side, P D on the other.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgq9QSiHtAd9dZNQsbnwV044MVtPN_zWr0i2Ei1Yg3rEbtvjGKwraKUNXeaBecZkQH8dEVI0h3JP0hfRgNas3ydJnb5sXKPMnWMF9y-3quabGisnTImYSqXg59gjCj_EnXSTgK8Ji1F8/s1600/IMG_4133.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgq9QSiHtAd9dZNQsbnwV044MVtPN_zWr0i2Ei1Yg3rEbtvjGKwraKUNXeaBecZkQH8dEVI0h3JP0hfRgNas3ydJnb5sXKPMnWMF9y-3quabGisnTImYSqXg59gjCj_EnXSTgK8Ji1F8/s320/IMG_4133.jpg" width="240" /></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh what a wonderful idea and so thoughtful of them to include us! We all love it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The one thing that's really holding us up is the tile setter. When he's done, then the plumbers can finish up. The tile setter is very meticulous, which also means, slow. We are going on six weeks to do two showers. To his credit, the framers did a pretty poor job of making straight walls and so he's had to do a lot of prep work to make it all square and plumb. The guest room shower is finished, just waiting on the glass door. We are hoping that he'll be done with the master bath walk in shower by the end of this week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We lived here for about a week with a construction door that didn't even have a handle on it. I had to stuff grocery bags in the holes so the bugs wouldn't come in. That fact alone made the arrival of the real front door a big event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's an oversized, solid wood, knotty alder with six glass panes and it turned out just perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ollie tried to swim in the river like his big friend, Simba. He is loving being a river dog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cooked in the new blue oven<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3si45LY1BCQTDoD5rpcs6hYz0cFUtBbvvTJNkTSDWJzraAB0BBX1nrSy1BRKPfW-xh5tIlzuIi-vW1SGnPGVzRfhJn_ftI9kAoZgqfVl8p0qQsoNjm5a2OWmNcNRKZm9OrCkUtgThwA/s1600/IMG_4148.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3si45LY1BCQTDoD5rpcs6hYz0cFUtBbvvTJNkTSDWJzraAB0BBX1nrSy1BRKPfW-xh5tIlzuIi-vW1SGnPGVzRfhJn_ftI9kAoZgqfVl8p0qQsoNjm5a2OWmNcNRKZm9OrCkUtgThwA/s320/IMG_4148.jpg" width="320" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike and his friend starting building a big farm table for the dining nook. They found some old wood that had been the high school bleachers from a small town in Idaho. I think it will make a great table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a little get together with friends and family at our house. Our friend, Cindy, brought dinner for everyone and the house really felt like home!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week we helped a little with Pat and Donna's landscaping. They had to get everything ready for her niece's wedding which took place next to the river at their place</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys finally got the mailboxes and the last road sign installed, so we are officially official. The work doesn't stop just because it's dark, you know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that gets you a little bit more updated on the goings on out here at the little river house(s). Life is busy but wonderful. Happy Trails until next time!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our house on the left and Pat and Donna's on the right.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Pat and Donna have moved in and become the first official residents of Chuckwagon Ln.! They have a beautiful house, barn and a lot of pole fencing. They are on speed mode because they have a wedding there in two weeks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The many finishing touches have been happening all week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last weekend the granite guy showed up with most of the granite but he didn't bring the big island piece since he didn't have enough help to install it. It was a holiday weekend and we were really lucky they could install any of it in the first place. Mike told him, if he'd go back and get the island piece, he would have help here to carry it in and set it in place. So he did! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was SO heavy! Pat, Travis and Mike helped them and every few minutes I'd run out from where I was hiding because I just couldn't watch and take a picture. The installer said it was a really scary install job but the non expert helpers did great. Whew! Glad it's in and although it's pretty crazy granite, we really like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once the granite was in, I went to work tiling the backsplash in the kitchen in a basic white subway tile with soft gray grout. I made a few boo boos (what's new?) but overall I'm so happy with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike finished up the exterior barn wood siding on the front of the house. We will have siders come and finish the rest in a traditional grey painted lap siding with batt and board in the gables. There is a little more barn wood on the back of the house and on the barn for him to finish up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The blacktop has been poured and not only looks awesome, it's helping to keep some of the dust and dirt out of the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The finish guys came and caulked all the baseboards, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">built</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the stair railing and the painter has been in doing touch up and stained the mantel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sen, the plumber, and his brothers came and trimmed out the plumbing. Such fun to have sinks on the dressers I bought months ago. Mike had to do some special carpentry to make the drawers still work around the plumbing. I've mentioned how talented and awesome he is, haven't I?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately the plumbers will have to come back after we move in to install fixtures in the two tiled showers. The tiler is still plugging along in there. We actually have floors tiled in the showers and he thinks the walls will be done by the end of next week. Patience. Patience. Patience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And one of our favorite finds has finally found it's home in our master bathroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the old 1921 Kohler claw foot tub that Mike tracked down from an ad on Craigslist. He found it in a pasture being used as a water trough. He had it cleaned up and powder coated. I sprayed the feet silver and whalaah! It looks like it was meant to be there! The funny thing is neither of us are "bath people", but this is so dang cute, I may convert!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't believe I didn't take any pics of the lights, or as my friend Dani calls them, the "jewelry". The electricians have been out there for the last three days putting up the jewelry...love it! You'll have to hold on until next time to see the pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The metal roofers have put the last bits of metal roofing up and finally....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With all of this going on the last week, plus all of the packing at the rental house, it may be a little surprising I have time to sit back on the front porch and take a photo like this of one of the beautiful vistas. It just can't be helped. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next time...a big surprise from P and D for M and C! Here's a teaser...</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-47062196198569825352016-09-01T09:53:00.001-06:002016-09-01T09:53:21.568-06:00I'm Floored!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been awhile since I've been able to sit down and edit pictures and create a blog post. We have been busier than ever out at the house and there's literally been no time for updates. I find myself with an hour or so this morning before I head out to the furniture stores in search of the elusive "perfect couch" for the great room. Is there really such a thing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So let's catch up. Last post, we were facing a big set back with setting the tile floors ourselves. Taun, our tile setter who is doing the two showers, was able to chip away all the bad work we did and put a new underlayment down. After he did that for us, we decided to press onward and do the rest ourselves. There was a 15x15 utility room, a mudroom and a fairly large hall bathroom off of the mudroom that all had to be done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started in the utility room and... oh my lanta! I was so sore, I really didn't think I could go another day. Now I know tile setters earn every dollar they charge. What back breaking, arthritic hand inducing, sweat dripping work it is. But we kept at it. Mike cut tiles and I mixed thinset and placed each and every tile. We used a 4x8 porcelain tile that looks like old distressed brick. It's the Chicago Brick line and the color is Chelsea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> really love the look and it will be so durable and easy to clean in the high traffic areas.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready to place the final two tiles</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took us four days to lay the tile and then little did I realize but the hard work began. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grouting..ugh! It was not hard, it just took a lot of wringing out of sponges and mixing small batches of grout, so it would't go off before we'd used it up and making sure it got into every crack. In total, it was a 5 full days to complete the project. I'm glad that it's done and it's beautiful! (PS- I never say never but I'll never lay that much tile again!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sons, Scott and Cade, popped in and out over the last few weeks. Scott was in town to finish up his private pilots license and they met up to fly over to a business meeting in Seattle. It was so nice to have Scott around to help Mike with the barn wood siding and just nice to have him around!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stone mason, John, was able to get all of the rock done outside and also to completely finish the fireplace. It looks just like we'd envisioned it. He's a very talented guy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of talented guys, our friend John and his son, Scott have completely custom built our cabinets in the kitchen, great room, utility room and master bedroom. That's a lot of cabinets! They have been setting them in place, adding the doors and trimming them out off and on all week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are almost finished and they outdid themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are so lucky to have good friends who are so talented.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the finish carpenters wanting to come in this week and finish baseboards, we were really on a push to get not only the tile flooring done, but ALL of the flooring done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike and his brother, Pat have been doing the wood floors. They are finally finished and Mike has just a few more planks of the LVP (luxury vinyl planks) to put down in our master bath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We picked out two slabs of granite that will be installed at the end of the week. I'm really nervous about how it will go with everything. Pretty wild and crazy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tile work is continuing in the master shower and the guest shower. Picture next time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, the black top was poured for the circle driveway and over to the barn. Picture next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally, we moved everything out of the storage unit thanks to the big muscles of this motley moving crew! A big thanks to our wonderful family, some of who aren't in this picture, who always manage to come to the rescue when they get that urgent, last minute shout out for help. </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-4258651547504549792016-08-17T18:14:00.003-06:002016-08-17T18:54:11.435-06:00Love it...Hate it.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LOVE the paint colors! Whew, I was pretty worried after seeing what Donna went through at her house. You just never know until the paint is on the walls! I love the contrast with the ceiling white and wall a soft gray. Then those dark stained beams against the white, vaulted ceiling....heart be still.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The painter is still doing a little touch up here and there, he painted the garage white and he's staining the library pocket doors and stair handrail. Then he'll be done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HATE is a strong word and my mom always told me I should say "</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">strongly dislike" instead, so let me start over. I strongly dislike our whole amateur tiling experience. After a full day of scraping, washing, measuring, cutting, mixing thinset, and trying to smoothly install the newest type of underlayment for the tile, I am strongly wishing we had given up something else in order to afford to have the professionals do this. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even with knee pads...tiling is not for sissies.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were warned, but we forged ahead and I'm sad to say, we failed in our first in attempt and the professional is coming to the rescue tomorrow to hopefully save the day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike was convinced he should use Ditra for the underlayment versus the more old style concrete board. It's been around in Canada for several years and is being used more and more here in the states. It's a roll of plastic waffle material with a porous fabric type backing. You first apply a layer of mortar or thinset, which needs to be fairly wet, but thick enough to hold a trowel groove. Okay, we can do that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Batch number one: spread out pretty nicely, then we placed the Ditra on top and used a float to press it down. It seemed to have a few places where the thinset didn't flatten as well as it did in other places. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Batch number two: A little thinner, spread out nicely, then we placed the next piece of Ditra on and used the float again...same problem, only this time when we smoothed the Ditra, the thinset just oozed out the edges..ugh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Batch number three: A little thicker, spread out pretty well, placed the Ditra mat and went to smooth it with the float and horrors...big areas where the thinset didn't want to flatten. Lumps and Bumps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> By this time the 15x15 room was covered with Ditra and we decided to go home and maybe things would look better the next day. Wrong. One look and we could see it looked the same only now the soft, squishy, lumpy, bumpy areas were now hard as rock. Time to call for help!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It sounds like we will to have to remove it all, sand the thinset down to an even layer and then redo it. Did I say "we", I meant "we" will watch and learn while a professional does it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a pretty discouraging set back. Time is of the essence right now and we have so much to do. It's a little overwhelming. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can do this. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We CAN do THIS! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not all peaches and cream, sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we bite off more than we can chew. It's part of the process, it's part of our dream to build this little river house and we are so grateful we are able to do it, even when it's been a hard day.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sunrise at the rental house...another day to be grateful for.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-90656340173739982642016-08-09T12:59:00.001-06:002016-08-09T16:15:29.882-06:00Finished theFinish Work<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...And now it's on to interior painting! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's some photos of some of the finish work. We're so happy with everything and can't wait to see it painted! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beams are up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the locker style cabinets in the mudroom.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The staircase isn't exactly what we had planned, but it went wrong way back at the framing stage due to one of those occasional miscommunications and now we just keep trying to make it work out how we'd pictured it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each sub that comes in has their own idea of how to fix the problems. I don't want carpeted stairs but tit seems that's always the easy answer. It finally came to a conclusion by decided to just paint it all the white trim color except the railing, which will be stained and the treads which will be painted, probably a color that blends in with the stain. Maybe someday we can actually put in some nice stain wood treads.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting ready to paint! You can see just a little bit of my paint color on the wall between the doors.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The painters showed up at our house after painting Pat and Donna's interiors. Donna is having them paint the walls in a lighter shade than she originally planned. It's crazy how different paint looks on the wall compared to the little chip you pick up in the store. I'm a little nervous about my color now! He did paint a section of the wall for me and when I first thought "Yikes, it's too dark", he brought out some half strength of the same color and we took a long look at that. I decided to go with the first one, it's a pretty strong contrast between the wall and the trim, but I just really love it. The trim color is a creamy white and the walls are Sherwin Williams Repose Gray. Pictures next time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our son, Scott is town for a week or so and he was ready to go straight out to the little river house and get to work helping his dad. Mike, his brother and Scott worked on putting the barn siding on the shed roofed dormers. Tricky work up on the hot, black roof.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hi mom!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Once a daredevil...always a daredevil. Any guess who is on the roof??</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Later our son Patrick and family came out to see the progress. We took a break and watched as Scott flew his racing drone around the property. The kids love Uncle Scott and his toys.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little storm blew through that brought some wind, cooler temps and a little hail storm. It was actually so pretty. The hail was shining as it dropped down through the sky and it looked like it was raining diamonds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-5609458936364628572016-08-01T08:56:00.002-06:002016-08-04T13:23:06.355-06:00Things are heating up!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things are so busy and moving along at a really good pace. The weather has been scorchingly hot! So hot, in fact, that Mike had to put little scrap wood tents over the nail guns because they were too hot to handle! It's supposed to cool down into the 90l's this week, which will certainly be a relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got a little ribbing after my last entry for referring to Pat and Donna's place as "the neighbors". So funny! I think I just assume everyone knows that they will be our neighbors and how thrilled we are at that prospect. I also sometimes just refer to them as P and D. It's just a shortcut, folks...my fingers get tired of typing out the whole "Pat and Donna's house" every time I refer to them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And speaking of P and D's house, and as promised last time..here are some pics of their house in the dry wall, tape and texture phase.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is such a great idea..a dog room off of the garage.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week their finish carpenters came and knocked that job out in two days. Then the painters have been working all through the weekend and it looks awesome! Donna had some creative finish work done...shiplap, wood slat designs on the bedrooms wall, and some beautiful crown molding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over at our place, the finish carpenters have been uhm...finishing up.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vern the finish carpenter with Mike. They are checking the new two panel doors.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a morning traffic jam in our driveway..we love to see this..things are getting done!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The roofers came out one day and worked for awhile. They told Mike they'd found a hole up on the roof where it looked like someone put their foot through. Mike said he'd fix it and up on the roof he went to get it fixed, so they could continue working. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They haven't been back for a few days, so either it's too hot to work or they are waiting for the metal roofing we picked out to come in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please excuse the proud wifey moment here, but can I just say my guy works so hard. He really does have a real life full time job, but by burning the candle at both ends for the last two months (with only one day off for his brothers' birthday motorcycle ride) he has managed to work on the house every single day. He does it all and never complains. I won't mention age here, but he keeps saying he's not twenty anymore, then laughs and says he's not forty anymore. He's my own version of the energizer bunny and my hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week he's been putting up the reclaimed barn wood siding. It's a SLOW process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's so much blocking, measuring and cutting not to mention the installing. His framer friend, Alan, came to help a couple of mornings. They decided to do a reverse batt technique and it looks so good! I originally thought I'd like the boards to butt up next to each other without a gap. Mike liked this look better and since he's the one putting it up, we went with it and did I mention, it looks so good!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ed came out to both of our places to clear out the russian olive trees and other bushes. We can now get a pretty good look at how we'll want to landscape there. A few strategically placed trees so we don't see that house across the river from us, some grass, a fire pit on a sandy little beach and it will be perfect!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One last little bit of excitement out at the Chuckwagon homestead this week...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A big "Thanks" to our local volunteer fire crews for getting out here quickly and knocking this down before it got to Ed's equipment. Like I said...it's scorching hot and just a spark from metal hitting a rock can start a little grass fire. No damage done, just a little bit of charred grass.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-15558515821332283142016-07-23T18:07:00.001-06:002016-07-23T18:07:35.013-06:00Hurry up and Wait...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hurry up...and wait!" That has to be our motto for the last couple of weeks. I'm sorry to have been so neglectful of the blog updates. We have been so busy and yet it seems like I spend a lot of time waiting around for the next thing to do on the list. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last weekend our daughter and her family came out to camp for the night with some friends. They had planned to go to Redfish Lake, but had to change plans at the last minute and so they just decided to camp out at the little river house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crew pitched a couple of tents, had a campfire and then floated the river the next day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The funniest thing... I went out that morning to check on a few things. It was all pretty quiet except for a couple of framers working on the facia and soffits. I didn't see any sign of the campers until I came around the corner and saw this little bundle of cuteness...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His mom was just down by the river but it was so funny to see him sitting there in a construction site, sound asleep!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The great news is that the whole dry wall, tape and texture process finally finished up this week. They worked for about 10 or 12 days and really pushed to finish up as fast as possible. The fact that the temperature has been in the 90s most of the last week, really helped things dry quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The doors were delivered so the finish carpenters could start working on window and door trim, closet packs and a custom mudroom cabinet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've had a few Uh-ohs this week and the doors were the first one...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we walked into the garage, Mike noticed right away that these were not the doors he thought we'd ordered. There was definitely a miscommunication somewhere along the line. We had picked out a nice, simple smooth, two panel, shaker style door. The doors in the garage were two panel, but they were a raised panel, wood grain door. After a quick phone call, the matter was taken care of and new doors are ordered and on their way. It shouldn't be a hold up because the door jams are all fine and the actual doors won't be needed until we are about finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uh-Oh number two this week...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we were walking through with the job manager for the finish work, we were talking about the beams in the great room and he said "You have a problem..there's a return air vent right where your ridge beam will come out of the wall".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can't believe we didn't notice that! Mike talked to the heating and cooling guys and they are going to come out and lower it so the beam will fit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Mike being the general contractor on this job and the fact that he is not expert or that he hasn't built a house for twenty years, this is just one of the many boo-boos we keep making. Some are no big deal, some are a much bigger deal. We have tried to just roll with it and make the best of each situation. So far, we've done a pretty good job. Things have gotten a little testy a time or two, but for the most part we have agreed on things and enjoyed the challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The neighbors are in the dry wall, tape and texture phase. They have all of the exterior siding completed. I didn't get a picture of that, but I will.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkbBAiqD6IU-QpIiV5N8n2d1LHJo0fpI4vZqdy3JvCxEvMI9p0SDcxtvTvn8i7rdTrWU7SN-Hs019XG0Bz7-WhofLLcy2qIw1qLeD2p3mvpwW73J-Ag73w2SQbSIvXxE6GUVFamgVOV4/s1600/IMG_3788.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkbBAiqD6IU-QpIiV5N8n2d1LHJo0fpI4vZqdy3JvCxEvMI9p0SDcxtvTvn8i7rdTrWU7SN-Hs019XG0Bz7-WhofLLcy2qIw1qLeD2p3mvpwW73J-Ag73w2SQbSIvXxE6GUVFamgVOV4/s320/IMG_3788.jpg" width="320" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ed has continued to work on the road and it looks great. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did realize that by putting the septic tank drain field where we did, we have scrunched up the front drive area and now the circle is too tight. We are still trying to figure out how to make that work without losing the circle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always wanted a circle drive, so I'm not letting it go yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally this week, we completed buying all of our light fixtures and most of the plumbing fixtures. ( just a few are still being shipped). We're lucky we have an extra room to store all of our purchases in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Signing off until next time...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was great having my mom and dad here and then to top it off, my brother came up for a couple of days as well. He's always been interested in houses and was anxious to check out the build job. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well things have slowed down considerably. I knew this would be the case when the dry wall, taping and texture process began, but we had a bit of a delay getting the dry wallers started, then the tapers were absentee for a couple of days. A few days ago they showed up for half a day, then disappeared again for a day and the word is that they are back to taping again today. Fingers crossed! Then we got the news that once the texture is on, we will have another week or two to wait for finish carpenters. The closer it gets to being done, the more anxious we all get to move things along. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The building in the Boise area has exploded and after the crash many of the subcontractors got out of the business and went on to other things. Now that the demand is back, there are just not enough good subs to go around and so we wait. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night, while we were out meeting the roofer and the excavator, a huge thunderstorm blew through. It was so beautiful in a really ominous way. Sitting on the back patio will be a perfect perch to watch sunsets, thunderstorms and life. I can't wait!</span><br />
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Photo: Donna Palmer</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week we celebrated Independence Day with a short </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">float down our little river in Pat and Donna's raft. It was a short thirty minute float from the bridge to the little river house. We've talked about doing this since we first saw the property and found out that it's a local favorite pastime on a hot day. We've been floating rivers in Idaho for about thirty years off and on. We've had some pretty exciting (in other words terrifying) whitewater trips and some very fun times. We've done Hells Canyon and several stretches of the Payette (many, many times). This is a lazy little stretch below the Black Canyon Dam. It will be perfect for the grandkids to float and maybe even for Grandma Vella, too!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain Pat and first mate, Mike<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Land Ahoy...you can see Pat and Donna's barn in the distance.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Getting out was a little tough only due to the fact that we haven't even begun to clear the river bank of the high grass, fallen trees and other vegetation. It's going to be a big job one of these days. We envision a nice little sandy area or deck with fire pit and chairs to relax in and watch the river go by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pat backed the trailer down through what will someday be the backyard and then we all lifted, carried and tugged the huge thing on the trailer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike realized a few days ago that we needed a mantel immediately. That's how it goes sometimes. Plan, plan, plan and then all of sudden DECIDE!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We took a trip out to River Valley Woodworks near Homedale. We looked there a few weeks ago for posts to hold up the porch roofs. This is family owned and operated business and they have some amazing stuff! This time Anthony was there to help us and after hearing us describe what we were looking for, he walked us down to a pile of very old logs that were from an old log house in Jordan Valley, OR. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It had been built lincoln log style and some of the logs still had the notches in them. He picked out one that was about six feet long for us that he said came from a section which was over the door. He emailed us some pics of the log house before he took it down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a unique experience to be able to watch as he and his son created us a mantel from a log that was over a hundred years old! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First they took out all of the old nails they could see and then used a metal detector to find any hiders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next step was to set it on then sawmill and line it all up to make sure he got the right dimensions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then they turned it on and whirrrrrrrrrr.....the first cut was made and we could see it was going to be beautiful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They shaved all four sides, and left a little bit of the original rough edge and the two ends rough. We wanted to have some of the aged part showing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We love it! We love the memories we will have of watching it be made and the history of it too. Win, win, win!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we got home, Mike sanded it all smooth and the next day he and Pat installed the mantels at both houses. It will need to be stained at some point, probably before the rock goes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The insulation is all done and the electrician came out and switched out the panel box for a larger one, and wired a few extra sockets like the one above the newly installed mantel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike and Pat also installed most of the windows in the barn and Mike built all the attic access boxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a little teaser...I worked on these and they are finally just how I want them. Any guesses what they are or where they're going??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we first started thinking about a house on the river, we knew we wanted it to look rustic and like it had been there for awhile. Not too shiny and new looking, if you know what I mean. The house Jim Belushi built on the Rogue River was sort of a jumping off point for us. His was just a little too rustic, too barn looking and too expensive for us to build but we really liked his use of reclaimed barn wood. We decided we'd like to use it on both the house and the barn, the question was how much of it would we use and where exactly would it go?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent a few hours with some colored pencils and some little copies of our elevation plans to try out a few options. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what I came up with and although it's still a work in progress, this is basically the vision of how it will look someday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike looked online for about a month, looking for the right place to get some reclaimed barn wood. He looked at a place in Utah, one in Idaho and even at the local lumberyard. There is a company that makes a product called Ghostwood, which is new wood that they do a process on to make it look old. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There have been a few places he found that had barns for sale but you had to come and take them down and remove all of the nails and then transport the lumber. That takes a lot of time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week he found a listing on Craigslist of a barn being taken down in Star. There is a lady who owns a business where she removes old barns. They either </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">take them down or sort and salvage the wood from barns already down and then sell the barn wood. Arrangements were made to go out to the location and see the wood for ourselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we got there we saw that the barn was all smashed and fallen in on itself. A big pile of old, dirty, barn wood, but with almost all of the nails removed. Yay! Just what we were looking for!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There wasn't quite enough and it was not quiet as grey as we were hoping for but the lady who listed it assured us she had more wood that was similar from a barn in Garden Valley. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After some negotiations, we were the happy owners of some beautiful old barn wood! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love that I know exactly where this wood came from and what it looked like in it's first life. I like that it has a history and that this old wood will not be left to rot or to go to a landfill, but that it gets to have a new life on our house and barn. That's just so sappy, but those who know me would tell you I really do have a love and appreciation for old things and history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So once the wood was ours, but now the trick was to get it out to the river house. Mike was able to get about two thirds of it loaded on his flat bed trailer and then he brought it over to our friend Betsy's house where he pressure washed both sides of each and every board and then grandson, Palmer and I took it off of the trailer and put it on the ground to dry. Then the two of them went back and got the other third and did the whole process again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that we wrangled up some more hands (also known as free labor) and with four generations of family out there helping, we loaded it all into the enclosed trailer in one big load and trailered it out to the new barn and then...you guessed it...UNLOADED it all in to the barn! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A full day's work and everyone was sore, tired and dirty by the end of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We celebrated a job well done by chowing down on some really good pizza. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike parked his truck in the barn for the first time. That folks, was an exciting moment, I'm sure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heating and AC guys got in and out in record time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Electricians are doing the rough in today and tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ollie checked out the new digs and came home with a little souvenir..a tick! I will be making an appointment at the Vet to get him some tick, mosquito and flea meds right away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A huge thank you to the amazing Galloways and to my parents for your quick response to the SOS call. And to those family members who weren't able to help this weekend because of work etc...just hang on, your turn will come!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin and his framing crew put a few more days in and they have maybe another day or two to finish up completely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLv-anBsco0qLck_1qpVhjlOO8cwy-Vtce2ZGNfy6vo2CIS6xPpTkg0nit80sa0zZxYiAaOO91GRUyjShFq8kJ89aJNlZqKZW-kWgHFHMNcMh4sInke361AR2kuectAkzTvNi5Q4QzEgw/s1600/IMG_3642+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLv-anBsco0qLck_1qpVhjlOO8cwy-Vtce2ZGNfy6vo2CIS6xPpTkg0nit80sa0zZxYiAaOO91GRUyjShFq8kJ89aJNlZqKZW-kWgHFHMNcMh4sInke361AR2kuectAkzTvNi5Q4QzEgw/s320/IMG_3642+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The well drillers were at Pat and Donna's this week, their windows were all put in and framing is about completed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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..)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">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!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The framers continue to do what they do...work hard and make things work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a well deserved weekend off, they are back to finish up the last few details, like getting the roof to meet in the middle, moving a wall or two, fixing a pretty major design flaw with the great room vaulted ceiling (I'll take partial credit for that, but I'm not an architect nor do I claim to be an expert in truss design) and adding three fake windows on the roof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Mike and Alan worked on the barn all weekend. These two "older" guys just don't slow down at all, even though they also deserve a weekend off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The barn is almost completely framed! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The windows and construction doors have been delivered and are just hanging out in the garage until the framers are ready to put them in. We've chosen an energy efficient vinyl window in dark bronze for the outside color and white on the inside. I can't wait to see them in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They have a house with a roof!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The framers are actually pretty good at keeping things clean and organized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a few pictures that capture the progress so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flat work company came out and built forms and then poured, stained and stamped the front porch and the back porch. We chose a weathered tan and gray stain and for the front porch, a slate stamp. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the back porch the stamp is a stone pattern. They'll come back after the house is done to pour the steps and put a nice sealer on all of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We still can't get over how beautiful it is out there. Even when it's nearly one hundred degrees, the river flowing by seems to make it a little bit cooler. Mike said he even went down and stuck his head in the river last weekend when he was framing the barn to cool off and it was so refreshing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes! The framers did show up on Tuesday as we hoped and they are working hard. It's a pretty big crew which means things are moving quickly. We've been out there almost everyday either doing some clean up work, or answering questions and catching a few mistakes along the way. It sure is better to catch them early otherwise it's a lot more involved to fix a framing boo boo after other things have been built on top or around the thing that needs to be fixed. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking out the great room window...there's the river!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A magnificent maze of 2x4's.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting dirt prepped for the front porch</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcFnDwesVPyhCfsPhGNcljSfW6btnBVpzZDW1KehkHDcNVZiXiPzz0LUrqbchHEu1fHOxoafccVp35V3IgB5RTOuTdX0lYG9k1h0ZGoiDFsz4EqHWbjTD3kRBbMpAMI9Xm0mfMx4z5vc/s1600/DSC_1019.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a>Mike and a framer friend, Alan and our two boys Pat and Travis along with Mike's brother, Pat, all showed up to our place last Sunday and got started framing the barn. They were able to get the whole first floor done in a day and half. Trusses were delivered later in the week and so they will go back and frame the second story this weekend. I can't tell you how exciting it will be for Mike to finally have a toy barn for all of his toys and tools!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The neighbors place is also going full steam ahead. They have a smaller framing crew, but those guys work long, long hours! Their barn, which is a big one, is almost completely framed and the house is about ready for trusses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you can see what a big difference just a little old week makes! There's been some talk about getting ahold of some travel trailers, motor homes, or fifth wheels etc... and moving out to the place so we could be on site for the rest of the build, but when it really started to get serious, it got nixed. I wasn't too keen on using a port a potty for months and someone (not mentioning any names, but it's not a female) REALLY likes to take long, hot showers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In between our many runs out to the property, we have been busy finalizing some of our subcontractors and bids. Plumbers will be coming in next to do the rough in, so we need to have a firm idea of what fixtures we'll be using. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been comparing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the big box store prices to the specialty stores. Surprisingly, on some of the sinks and fixtures, the big box stores weren't always cheaper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've also chased around to the granite supplier, another floor contractor, and spent countless hours online looking at light fixtures. One day we drove a huge 120 mile circle from Eagle to Sweet to Emmett to Homedale and back home looking at different places for our porch beams and posts. The photos above are of this great little place near Homedale, ID. Cade and Becca discovered this place when they were looking for flooring and a countertop for their Sprinter van conversion. River Valley Woodworks is a small local business that sells all types of reclaimed wood and timbers, glue lams etc.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This part of building a house is pure joy for me. Well, almost pure joy. Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed with all of the options, but it is sure fun to look at all the ideas that are out there...anything and everything you can think of to enter into a search bar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another week down and another productive week on tap. Until next time!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-9555422719064780612016-05-28T22:42:00.001-06:002016-05-30T11:15:21.201-06:00Flakey Framers or Flakey Blogger?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been a little neglectful of the blog lately. I need to blame someone so maybe I'll blame it on "flakey framers" but in reality I should blame the one and only flakey blogger...me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've been having too much fun having Cade and Becca here visiting for a couple of weeks while they convert their new Sprinter van into their very own tiny house. It's been fun to compare notes on the two build jobs..theirs is just a tiny bit, well...more tiny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'd better back up a couple of weeks. Last time we checked in at the little river house, the boys were busy doing the drain field for the septic systems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> They also had to do some trenching to put in the septic and well lines to the house. The reason they were doing all of this work is a sad one. The excavator who was going to do the work was killed in a work related accident just a few days before he was scheduled to start work at our place. The boys were able to borrow a backhoe from their cousin, Rod and do the work themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It was a lot of dirty, hard work but they were pretty pleased when the inspector came by and not only approved everything but commented on how good of a job they did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Donna and I have taken turns bringing the guys something to eat. They get so hungry but rarely stop to eat unless the food is right under their noses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Okay that was week one since I've blogged, now on to week two...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we had the framers scheduled to start last Monday. They were going to frame P and D's house and barn first, then move over and do ours. The weekend before starting, the framing boss called and said he had decided he just couldn't do it for the bid he'd quoted. After much discussion (and snarling and gnashing of teeth and maybe some swearin') they were told to take a hike...we'd find another crew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daughter, Codi, brought her family out to clean out the foundation in preparation for the framers. They picked up a lot of nails and garbage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The middle of the next week, we had two brothers, each with their own crews lined up. One crew would start P. and D.'s house on Monday and the other would start ours on Wednesday or Thursday. After another delay, work finally started on theirs, but our framer never confirmed and seemed to have dropped of the face of the earth. Pat scrambled looking for us a framer once again...that would make it the third attempt (if any one is counting) and sure enough he was able to find us another one and they were all lined up to start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Friday they said they'd be there on Saturday to start. That was sooner than expected, so Mike had to quickly call the lumber guy and see if he could get the wall framing package delivered on Friday afternoon so they'd have materials to work with through the weekend. If they hadn't been able to swing that, the framers wouldn't have what they needed and would have to wait until Tuesday. Luckily, Curtis came through and had it all delivered. We thought the framers would be there this morning but when the boys got out there at O' dark thirty, ready to go over things...yep, you guessed it...no framers! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few phone calls later and it seems they are taking off for the Memorial Day weekend and will be at work bright and early Tuesday. NO...don't say it...don't even think it! I'm one hundred percent positive they'll be there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, the neighbor's framers showed up on Friday and they have almost framed the first floor of the barn. They also have the flooring and one wall up on their house. That's exciting progress!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tonight Mike and I went to dinner with friends. A year ago almost to the day, this is where we were.... on our way to eat dinner in Triangle with Mike's mom and Pat and Donna, when we happened to pass by the For Sale sign that set this all in motion. I still can't believe this has all happened. We really do have so much to be grateful for, and on this weekend we'd like to express our gratitude to those who gave all for their country, their faith and their families. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-50995432395198649662016-05-12T09:21:00.004-06:002016-05-12T09:23:33.437-06:00Field of Dreams..er..Drains<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The boys went to work digging the holes for each house's septic tanks. Those big holes are located next to the houses. They will connect to a drain field that is further away from the houses. The drain field isn't deep (maybe eight inches), it just has to be so many square feet big and the boys decided twenty five by twenty five feet would do it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The inspector came out and approved everything but he said that if you have room, which we do, he would like the field to be longer. In other words, six feet by one hundred or two six feet by fifty feet fields. That makes sense..and I want you to know I actually figured the math out on that one. Pretty amazing for someone who considers math a foreign language of which I have no knowledge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have our son, Scott, in town for a couple of days, and he has only seen the place from the air. He was anxious to go see it from ground level. We also had grandkids London and Lucca for the afternoon. London loves to play in the dirt, so what better place? Let's go extend some drain fields!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After some measuring....really, the measuring never ends around here! It was determined they would have to fill in some of the area that had been dug and then dig out some more to make two six by fifty drain fields on each home site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was hot and dirty work, so after watching for about an hour, we left the men to do the work and made a quick trip to Sonic for cold drinks and dogs and then headed for home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also met with some friends who recently built their home and we had a great visit picking their brains for any bits of advice they might pass along to us. My friend said she was just a little jealous that we were just starting to build our dream home and hers was finished. She really enjoyed the process of designing and choosing all the components of her house and wished she could do it again. Sometimes, I get so tired of making decisions about every little thing and every BIG thing, that I just say "whatever works". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was so good to be reminded that while at times this process can get tedious, challenging, mind taxing and frustratingly slow, at the same time it is exciting, creative, bonding and fulfilling! We really do feel so blessed to be in the midst of this big adventure. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-24569321539287063632016-05-04T11:53:00.001-06:002016-05-12T08:37:39.488-06:00The Road More Traveled<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been out of town for a few days this past week. It was pretty exciting to get back and see how much progress had taken place while I was gone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ed and his crew have made a road. A long road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To do that, they dug a hole to get gravel out of which was then used to build the road base. The hole became two holes after he couldn't find the kind of gravel he wanted in the first hole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ponds are located right where the two private roads connect and are on P. and D.'s property. They look a little muddy and rough right now. I don't think any of us were tempted to go skinny dipping, but the dirt will settle and the edges will be smoothed out. It's going to be so pretty as you drive up to the houses. I still don't think I will be tempted to go skinny dipping. Let's just drop that subject and move on...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also...we got foundation walls!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's the part that sits on top of the cement footings which were poured last week. The short round cement things are the front porch supports. To the left is the angled garage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behind the foundation is the river...about 150 feet away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike and I went out last weekend and I watched while Mike moved a phone box which was too close to the road. It took him about an hour to get his work done. Ollie and I just wandered all over the place and took photos and enjoyed being there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last night we took the boy's mom, Vella, out to the place to show her what's been happening. I think we got her stamp of approval or she was just really good and keeping any negative comments to herself. She's always been pretty good at that and that one of the things that makes her the best mom in law on the planet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also spent some time figuring out exactly </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">how the</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> driveway will go from the turn around to our house and barn. There's probably about another week of road work to be done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see, there is always progress being made. Sometimes it's just a little, sometimes it's big. The exciting part is just around the corner...when the framing starts and we see the walls rise up out of the foundation. Stay tuned....</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129580328585428172.post-78954151567626160142016-04-27T10:45:00.001-06:002016-04-27T10:45:15.151-06:00It's a Good Sign<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The brothers had to break a little bit of sweat a few days ago when the time came to put up the first of the two private road signs. Now if you need directions, it will be a little easier to get yo</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">u to the place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Chuckwagon sign for our other road is ready to be put up, but it will have to wait until the road is in place, so it doesn't get in the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of the road....it's started! They are at work digging a big pond in order to get the gravel for the road bed and they have smoothed out the existing, very rough "road". It should be another week or two and then we can drive on a road, versus what is essentially a lumpy, bumpy horse trail, to get to the house. I'll add photos next time</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other good news is that we have officially started the house and barn! There are actual cement footings in place and the foundation walls are set to be poured today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we walked around the foundation and pointed out where certain rooms will be located and then wandered out to the back, where the deck that will overlook the river will be, we really just wanted to pull up our chairs and sit there with a tall drink and just enjoy the sunset. It was a vision of evenings to come. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That, my friends, is a wonderful sight! That is P. and D.'s footings for their foundation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems that we've progressed beyond the moving of dirt and have moved to the next phase....finally!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all went out to admire the vast expanse of concrete (or concocrete, as my nephew used to call it) and our friends came to "oooh" and "ahhh" with us. Because that's what good friends do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After admiring the neighbor's cement for awhile, we wandered down along the river and over to our neck of the woods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We received our building permit from the planning and zoning department at end of this week. That means it's all systems go for us to start framing once the road is in. Have I mentioned yet how everyone we've dealt with so far, both in the county and the city, have been so great to work with? We are so impressed by how kind, helpful and friendly everyone has been each step of the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our footings should be poured the first of next week, as well as the foundations for both houses and barns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mike and I have been chasing around every spare minute getting bids for floor coverings, windows, doors, framing, roofing, granite, cabinets etc...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a busy, crazy time, but I really enjoy this part of the building process. One of the subs we talked to said he likes it too. He is only one part of the puzzle but he likes to see the puzzle when it's complete and how his "piece" fit into the finished product. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We sure hope to have a big party and invite all the subs back to see it when it's done!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1