And the next day . . .

It looked like this:

Luckily, we had a crew of three to work on getting these trusses in place and other hard for a girl-and-her-tractor alone work to do. They'll finish out the week, and then we'll continue on (me documenting, rooting, and encouraging, Melissa doing the actual work!)

This morning it looks like this:

I took some photos yesterday evening to try and document what the house looks like pre-2nd floor. The truck with the trusses is there now. I wish I were there to see it, but rest assured, photo documentation is going on!

Here's how it looked late yesterday/early today:

Front of house, looking southwest. Garage on right (cut off).

Back of house, looking Northeast. Livingrm slider opening on right.

Side of house, with office doorway and livingroom windows

Garage end of house, with laundry rm window and slider opening

Tonight/tomorrow will be a whole new story, literally!

Garden bounty, and Tuesday will be an exciting day!

Though I go to the new house site nearly every day (it's about 4 miles from where we're living), I keep forgetting my camera! Part of the 2nd floor is up, and tomorrow the trusses come, which will make the house go from it's current 1 story frame to a 2 story! EXCITING!

I'll get out there tonight and take some before photos.

In the meantime, here's a shot of Saturday's harvest from my garden:

Sugar Snap Peas














This winter, I planted a lot of seeds, and with the cool spring we had, the sugar snap peas went crazy. The sweet peas are blooming fiercly, too. These Sugar Snaps are just about finished, and the tomatoes (I planted 13!) are blooming now and I'm hoping they'll set fruit soon.

For tomatoes, I planted Sungolds, Brandywines and Boxcar Willies (chosen for Willie our dog). I also planted (though not from seed) 4 hot peppers, one eggplant, two summer squashes (one's ready to pick today!) and a cucumber. I lost the Ambrosia melon, but have lettuce, parsley, chives, cilantro, basil, arugula and lettuce. And a lot of weeds, which will probably be the end of me. I'm trying to be organic, and the weeds are out of control. I try to keep them weed-whacked and just look the other way. It certainly isn't a magazine photo-worthy garden, but I love it anyway. I can't wait until I get to live where my garden is!

Uh oh, nearly a year

OMG. I knew it had been awhile, but I didn't realize it's been 11 months. I've had grand plans to get back in the swing of things and start documenting the house construction. Though it's been going slowly, I fear I won't be able to catch up.

What's been happening? Well, the teardown is complete, electrical panel (and wiring to pole) has been moved, and the first floor is just about complete. The upper floor joists are going in, and trusses should be delivered in about 2 weeks. WOW! That seems like so much, until I realize that it's taken a year for all that to happen. That's ok. It's the process, right?

It's a good thing I didn't realize when I started this post that I don't even have a recent picture. Sigh. I like to think I'm on top of everything, but maybe not so much . . .

This isn't even close to being up to date (note right hand portion of original house still intact) but the best I can do today. And I'm going to try and be a more frequent guest here. We'll see . . .