Pretty exciting as more walls are starting to get put up. The construction foreman figures to have all the walls up by end of Monday (today). Then they’ll start on the roof trusses and getting the roof on the house. We have the windows on order, so they should be coming sometime soon. Once the roof is on, then the crew will build the garage as it’s a separate module from the house and attached at the back wall. The green wall is the living and dining area with a 10 foot ceiling which is why the roof line is a bit taller than the rest of the house.
Once everything is up, then they’ll start building out the inside walls by “furring” out all the walls with 2×3’s to create space to run electrical and plumbing. After all the construction framing is done, then electrical and plumbing. Then the construction guys come back with wallboard, cabinets and all the finish work. Once the walls are up, I’ll fly the drone over and get some shots of the layout. Finally, 3 years of planning are coming to fruition.
Today is Monday, so laundry and I have to take my father-in-laws wife to her eye surgery appointment today. That will break up the day a bit. Then I’m planning on using the tractor to do more work on the driveway and fill the holes from digging out the Chinese Elm saplings. I’ll smooth those out.
Took out the Can-Am on Saturday and managed to lose a spare tire off the back. $300, so I’m trying to find it, but the route isn’t well marked and I’m not familiar with it. Makes me crazy as I had it strapped down tight, the back strap came off the tie-down. I would have hoped it just fell in the middle of the trail, but I can’t seem to find the right trail or retrace the original route. So annoying and expensive. We did a night ride Saturday which was cool. I love the lighted whips now that I have them wired into brake and turn signals. I need to get a front light bar to illuminate the trail more. The headlights work great, but it would be better to have more light. Then I can add an upper windshield to help with the dust and wind to make it more comfortable. I LOVE driving that vehicle in the desert. It’s soooooo much fun to just cruise around and explore the trails. Disheartening about how much trash gets dumped out in the desert. People are just lazy and cheap, so they just dump everything out in the desert. So sad, so sad.
The other issue is modern day cattle rustlers. They go out at night and find ranchers cows and slaughter them for the meat. You find the places where they killed the cow and cleaned it then loaded it on the back of the UTV and took it home. Sometimes I think reverting to old West style of justice will make them think twice about that behavior. Unfortunately, a lot of those activities are by south of the border individuals. Too bad because it ruins everything for everyone else.
Well, I need to start my day. I have to get back into the morning exercise routine. My body is starting to break down because I can’t exercise. And I hurt from lack of motion and movement. It’s living in a trailer that is a total pain in the ass. Getting the house build can’t happen fast enough. We still need to get the kitchen appliances done. There isn’t enough money in the budget for Wendy’s split column setup so we’re going to have to do a side-by-side built-in. $40k for kitchen setup isn’t supportable and it’s ridiculous. That’s as much as the EV we just bought. So much more to figure out. Cabinets are the next big thing.
Time to get going. More tomorrow after all the walls are up on the house.
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