Ok...not really black and white! But COLOR is so very exciting! :) Saturday, Sam and an entourage of Tina's family and friends put the first paint on a house! :) YAY! It's really amazing! By the time Ahren left on Saturday, 2 walls of Zhan's house were painted as well!
As for the rest of us, Ross didn't call it this, but we were TOTALLY punch listing! :) We did a few things on our house...fixing some un-square walls, finishing the stairs, putting up the scaffolding for the trusses (WHICH COME WEDNESDAY!), top plates, and Anna and I cleaned out the house, which was so lovely! It's really too bad we can't do something productive with sawdust, because we have TONS of it!
People were working on Linda and Pennoyers as well! Linda's will get trusses with ours on Wednesday. The last sets of trusses! :) I walked through Pennoyers and Linda's for the first time. There are things I LOVE about every house!! Three of the houses are drywalled, I believe almost everyone has plumbing/electric that's ready for it, Anna and Pennoyers should be ready for Tyvek/Windows soon! It's all coming right along.
We brought this silly little BBQ out on Saturday and grilled bratwursts and had chips with everyone. It was a beautiful day, and was so nice to have a little lunch break with everyone! :) I know how blessed I am to be in this project at all, but to be in it with people I truly admire, respect and care about is really more than I ever could have hoped for!
So next week we'll be rolling trusses, and doing more punch list stuff. I get such a sense of awe when I walk into one of the houses that has finished drywall. It's a HOUSE people...a house. No question. I remember when I'd look at the framing book, and it may as well have been something in greek. Now, not only do I completely understand those books, but I can walk in a house that I helped build and sit down on it's floor, lean against it's REAL wall, and plug something into it's outlet! What a sense of accomplishment!
I didn't take many pictures...ended up having to leave unexpectedly because I had a really sick baby at home! I'll get twice as many next week!
Til next week!
HB
You know, there's tons of stuff you can do with sawdust (ok, maybe not tons, but at least a couple...) like mulch for flowerbeds, or compost for a garden, or...um...if it's the big chippy kind of stuff, for ground cover like barkdust... Mostly dirt-related stuff, but you get the idea. :)
ReplyDeleteSo proud of you for all you've done, Heather! You go, you radical builder-woman, you! :)