A new week

One thing you get used to, building a house: extreme highs and lows. It was a real high, at the end of the week, to see our porch go on the house. Lor and I are both very please with how it is coming out, and have already begun enjoying sitting on it.

At this point, the rough electrical is almost done. Lor has really worked a lot, pulling cable and cutting out boxes, over the last few days. Over the weekend, we pulled some data cables, and I worked on my loft flooring. Saturday we tried to work at the house all day but had so many visitors it was hard to get anything done. I did manage to pick up the brick from Chuck and Nancy, we'll see if the mason can use it.

Over the weekend, Lor's brother Andrew and his fiancee Megan came over with thier son Axel. We had a nice visit, and at one point, Andrew and I started talking about design and architecture. The book, "A Pattern Language" came up. If any of you are considering building a house, FIND AND READ THIS BOOK. It was written in the 70's, and is a bible for anyone creating a home. It describes timeless principles of design (that many modern architects seem to have forgotten). One thing that amazes me as I walk through our house is to see many of these principles come alive within the structure.

So, those where the highs.... Today, we had some lows. The power run from our pole to the house ended up being way over budget, and we just got the bill. We are so on the edge of affording this house that any overage matters a lot, and there isn't much room to cut. In addition, we had a minor crisis with the windows. As the OSB team went to start installing them, they found four that were too big for the rough openings. In the end, it will all be fine, but it does mean some re-work. It was due to a typo on the spec sheet! What a stressor...

Oh, one final thing: the photo below is of a finch that made her nest in the basement ceiling beams. her babies hatched a week or two ago, and we're hoping they fly off before we get the whole thing enclosed.