Week 9

What a hot and muggy week this one turned out to be. Things kept moving along though on the house front. One of the most noticeable things was the shingles on the house. With the garage roof, and porch roof done, the shingling could get done on the front part of the house.

The shingling crew worked a couple of evenings to get the roof done to the point where all that was left was the ridge caps.

Saturday morning, Kerry and Erik and I went up on the roof to finish up. This is a view of the roof from the top. This is the north half of the roof, the south side isn't very interesting, all it has is one stack sticking up out of it. It felt really good to have this finished and know that now if it rains, the house should stay dry on the inside.

Monday morning Kerry and I went to Wpg to pick up decking for our porches and by Tuesday evening our screen porch had a nice deck floor, and a spot for the hot tub.

Starting from the top left corner, the soffit got installed on the front wrap around porch. Next picture shows the decking that got put on there. Bottom right shows the garage window that got installed. There is another one on the other side of the garage. Bottom left shows the attic hatch/stairs that we put into the garage so that we can use the space up there for storage and have easy access.

These pictures show just some of the work that got done. There was still some electrical work happening as well on some daysand another window installed up high on the front of the garage, and Kerry and I were shopping. One day we went to Grand Forks to pick up doors that we had ordered, as well as some other supplies and spent some time shopping for appliances. The next day we went to pick up the shower we had ordered 3 weeks ago, only to find out that they had ordered the wrong one by mistake. Luckily there was another one available in the city so they will deliver it to us early this week. And we did more appliance shopping. Saturday we finished up the roof and we went to Wpg to do more appliance shopping. This time we had success and before the day was done had purchased a fridge, a microwave, a cook top and a wall oven. That was a big relief. We couldn't believe how hard it was to find what we wanted, but we persisted and we are happy with what we bought. Now our kitchen cabinet plan can be finalized and we can move on to other things. There is also always lots of clean up to do around a job site and so evenings were spent doing that. We also ordered our siding. Things are moving along and every day brings more progress and more decisions but so far we are happy with our house and looking forward to being able to move in and enjoy this unexpected blessing.