Mourning

It's true. I'm in mourning. My framing days are almost over, and I'm leery of what lies ahead! Saturday, Pennoyers and Anna & Josh's houses had the trusses rolled out. Linda's house and our house received their floor systems, so the second floors can be built. And then that's it. The end of our framing days. Zhan and Linda and Robert were out on Monday, and laid the floor down on the beams. Lines need to be chalked, stairs built, and then the last two framing packages will come. I like framing. I understand it. I'm fairly good at it. It's not complicated, monotonous, or a super long process.I will miss it when we spend months painting. And painting. And painting. And cleaning. Ross also says there's lots of cleaning. Joy. I don't even like to clean the house I LIVE in! BLEK!

So what's left? Anna & Josh's, and the Pennoyer's needs to have the roof sheeting done. Then sheer wall inspection. Then Tyvek and windows, and then the contractors come in. Linda's house and ours need the second floors built, trusses rolled, roof's sheeted, and then tyvek and windows. Then starts the interior work!

Tina's house had the insulation in when we were there Saturday. AMAZING. It SOUNDS different...so quiet. It's packed in white cottonish insulation. Not what I was expecting, but it looks really good!

Ahren and I picked all our selections. Cherry cabinets, Pergo burnished fruitwood floor, "peanut" carpet, don't remember what we picked for laminate counter top or vinyl, and our house will be a deep red with brown accent and soft white trim. It makes it so real that we actually have to PICK this stuff now! Tina's will probably be drywalled soon, and then we'll be doing finish stuff before we know it.

In September, a year of my life seemed SO LONG. I knew we'd get through it. I knew it'd be hard.But now here we are at the end of May, almost all the houses done with framing, and it seems like yesterday I was learning to use the router for mudsilling! I met Robert's sister this weekend, who built a house through the same program. They built 11 houses, and she said by the time they were entirely done framing, it was 3 months until move in. Now, I hate to get excited, but if that holds true for us, we're looking at the end of SEPTEMBER. Not November...SEPTEMBER! This would be such an amazing blessing! So hopefully that will help us all stay MOTIVATED! :)

So that's the update! I haven't uploaded the pics from this week, but I DID start an album of all the pics since February. You can see it at www.photobucket.com/thehousethatlovebuilt

Thanks for following our adventure! :)
HB