House Update, 10-10-09

This is the crawl space, i.e. about 5 feet in the ground with poly (platic) and pea rock as the base. We will not use this for anything, other than a location for the small furnace and duct work for this area. We will access it throught the existing basement window.


They now have the floor joists and base floor in place.

They put up the exterior walls on Krisanne's birthday, October 8th! An open roof will extend to the left of the new wall (i.e. where the existing patio door is). You can see the kitchen window above the sink is now boarded up.

This is part of the expanded dining room. The two new windows you see will be the same as the windows in the living room (the one living room window is shown on right hand side of the picture).

Foundations and Trucks

These pictures are in reverse order. It started with the big "hose" truck that had a vacuum type elephant nose that sucked up the concrete from the other truck. The "hose" then went over the house to the back, where the concrete was laid in for the foundation. Then after a couple days, the block layers came in to put up the block wall. This area will be the crawl space under the addition.
The "hose" had concrete in it, which was laid in between the boards for the footings for the block wall.

As you can see there was alot of "hose" as it went completely over the house!

It all went pretty fast with these type of trucks and equipment.

Isaac's Tree, Windows, Doors

The new windows and doors have made it a lot brighter look in the enterance.

This is Isaac's tree. We planted the same tree as for Connor and Carson, i.e. a Prarie Spire Ash. Julianna and Kaelynn's trees are Curly Willow and Lydia's is a Golden Crisp Apple. We hope and pray they all will establish firm roots and grow to be strong and healthy.

It may not be obvious, put we replaced the paneling on top of the garage door (paneling under the vertical strips). The overhead garage door is the same, but painted.

Minnkota, Grand Forks picnic

Itasca State Park