1st Delivery

So I made it out of bed this morning about 5:30am (my second morning in a row!) and I am still alive to talk about it! For those of you who haven't caught on yet-I am SO not a morning person. We got the first semi load of logs unloaded and set in various places through out my yard. Here are pictures of the load...it was pretty high and heavy!



This is all for now...I've got to run to meet Dana at work. He's driving the crane home today so I have to follow him home.

Log Delivery

It is confirmed...our logs will be delivered over the next two days in three different shipments. The first shipment will be here tomorrow morning between 6am & 7am, the second shipment sometime tomorrow evening and the last shipment on Friday morning between 6am & 7am.

We will soon be seeing MUCH progress! Yay!

One more weekend down...

I hate to disappoint, but I don't have new pictures to post yet. Saturday Dana, Leonard, my dad and I left for Medford at 6am (*yuck*) to check out the logs for the house. Yes, it is all assembled and no, you can't see any pictures of it until it's set up on our property!

The house is absolutely beautiful and my imagination was running wild with how the inside is going to look once we get it done. I did give the log home place a little bit of a hard time...there were some things I wasn't happy with. Nothing big, mostly just cosmetic items. So, I left him with a short list of things I expect them to fix before the logs are delivered this week. We should get our pallets of logs probably on Wednesday or Thursday. Then on Monday the 4th, the reassembly begins!

Yesterday we spent the day moving around the lumber we are now storing in our yard, just trying to get things set up for the logs to be delivered. We've still got some trees to fell in the yard so we can be sure that the crane will be able to get around all sides of the house. We've also got a little more work to do on the subfloor. Hopefully this week will be a little more laid back than the past weeks have been. We need to rest up for next week!

Subfloor

The guys have been working very hard getting the subfloor done.

Here are some new pictures that show the stem wall built down the center of the house,

The BCI's set up and nailed down,

Dana and Leonard nailing down the plywood

Leonard, Dana and Frank putting down more plywood.

Rat slab!

I know I haven't posted for a few days...not because the guys haven't been working! I was sick over the weekend and just haven't been able to get caught up. So I'll try to do a couple posts so you can see all the progress we've made since last week.

As you've already seen, we have a 3 foot tall stem wall. This is so Dana doesn't have to crawl around on his hands and knees underneath the house later in life. This past weekend we poured more concrete so we have a rat slab under the house. This is so Dana doesn't have to walk around in dirt underneath the house! He is so spoiled...

Here are Dana, Will, Josh, Leonard and Frank getting the sand spread out for the slab. All the rebar is set out and tied together...the concrete is ready to be poured over the top. I tied all that rebar together! :)

Here's my guys shoveling the concrete...I should have been helping but I was laying on the couch sick with the flu. Amazing they managed to get it done without me! Ha ha.

The finished product...it turned out perfect!

Foundation progress

The concrete is here!













Pumping the concrete into the forms.













Harvey, Dana and Will cleaning up the top of the concrete.



















Papa and Frank taking a break. Man, supervising is hard work!













The finished product!

The beginning...

Leveling out the lot.













Digging out the trench for the stem wall.













Putting up the forms for concrete.

Before Picture