Well, well, well....

The well is in! Faulkner came yesterday (thursday) around 11 AM, and the well was complete by mid-afternoon. They drilled 260 feet, right through granite, and got a draw of 35 gallons per minute. A really great well. Now, we'll have Brent Newland come back to dig for the hose, and once that's done, tri-state will be back to install the pump and tank. The well is one of the biggest unknowns when building a house, and having ours come out so well is a huge weight off my shoulders. In addition, the cost of the well was wrapped up in a land deal I did with Neal last year, so the cost of the well doesn't hit the bottom line of our budget.

The OSB boys got the south wall siding done today, and Loralee followed up with the staining. She acutally got half the wall painted in about 4 hours, which is pretty good. However, after seeing just how light the stain color we have selected is, we realized that it's just too light. She's going to pick up a darker shade today, and we'll see how that looks on the house.

This weekend, we'll be up at the house again: insulating interior walls for noise-deadening, wrapping up the 1st floor window eurethane, and exterior painting. We'll probably work a half day on Saturday, and a full day Sunday. We also need to do a lot of picking up-- I finally managed to get the loft floors done, so all that wood can come out, now.

It's hot (high 80's) and very humid... It may break over the weekend, but I'll believe it when it happens. Summers are short around here, so it's hard to complain. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of the corn has topped out over the last few days. The hot humid weather really helped the crop catch up, but I thought it all still seemed a bit short to top off....