I met a man upon the stair.....

.... I met a man who wasn't there.

It rained all day yesterday so they put in the stairs.
They also got the windows put into mom's place.

They have also recently finished the rough plumbing.

And, delivered mom's tub.

More Roofing

We got more roofing done today. The finished sheathing the front of my house and worked on the back patio for mom. They should be getting ready to shingle soon. I hope that we don't get rain before then. :o) That wouldn't be good for my house. This is supposed to be water tight already but you never know with my luck. We seem to like to tempt fate here.

Here is the front of the two houses now. I guess I should say House because mom wants it to look like it is just another wing of the same house not two houses mushed together.

Here is the roof line of her patio. It is going to fabulous when it is done. I think some tea parties should happen out there!

Update

Things are moving again quickly on the house.
Yesterday Eric came in with his crew and the worked on the front of my house where they are pushing the kitchen out and they worked on mom's patio.

Bradley and Nicolas worked on taking of the facade off my roof so they can bring the roof line together.
Nicolas just stood up there and cut it off. I was really impressed by how strong he is and how much he trusted his dad. He went to cut the beam and stopped and looked at his dad and asked if he was going to be safe doing it. Eric said yes and Nicolas said OK and started cutting without a worry. He knew his dad would keep him safe.

He is heading off on a mission here in a few months.

Here it is finished. They pushed my kitchen out about six feet to give me a dinning area in the kitchen. I am more excited than I can say. I can't wait! We will have a space big enough to eat for everyone when they come over. We should be able to do Thanksgiving here. Who's coming. hee hee.

They also poured mom's patio. It has rained so much this week that they had to bring a pumper truck in. They brought the concrete right up over the house. It was very impressive to see.
Mr. JEB is out there checking out the new patio. It is going to be really nice. The porch is fixed so mom can walk around the house and get exercise without worrying about tripping on uneven ground. The patio will also be covered so she won't have to worry about the sun too much.
We found some squatters on the place this month and had to evict them.

A couple of our little goats think that mom's house is the place to be. We had to cover up the doors so they couldn't get in anymore. We also had to post Joe out on the porch to watch them. We couldn't figure out where they were getting out. He watched them and found that they had found a weak spot in one of the fence panels and were pushing it out with their shoulders. We fixed it quick. Now they are sadly in their pen again. I don't think it will take them long to find a new way out. They are very tricky.

More Roofing

This is looking so exciting now. They really are working very fast. The porch beams take a long time to put in but look so great when done.

Now mom is thinking about house color and roof color. She is considering cream because that is the color of my house and it isn't too colorful for her but is colorful enough for me. (Hey I would go with a pink or bright green house if I could get away with it. I will settle though for bright colored walls inside.) She is also considering what color shingles she wants. She hadn't given them much thought till I told her there were colors then I could see the wheels turning. Her mother put a green roof on their house because she wanted the look of green things. She missed the green trees she had in Berkley. The house was originally supposed to have a blue roof. I liked the green one myself.
I think it would be fun to have a colored roof; a creamy yellow house with white trim and porch railing and a red roof. Wouldn't that look like a storybook, grandmother's house? You would expect to be able to get a cookie from a real cookie jar and sit and have a wonderful chat. Add some hollyhocks, daisies, and climbing roses and the picture is complete.

Roof

The roof is going up this week. We finally have dry weather here is MO but with it has come really high temps. It is in the high 90's all way with very high humidity. I can take the heat but not the humidity. The workers are here late into the evening today when it is cooler. They did show up at dawn too though.

They really are hard workers. This is what they did yesterday.

Porch

Sorry I haven't posted for a bit. We have been busy. The workers got the concrete finished this past week. They have been battling rain for weeks. We only had rain two days last week so they were able to come in and finish up.
They poured the top for the safe room and the wrap around porch.

This is the back of the house.


This is looking out the garage door past her front door.

The pouring was a rather eventful day. I had to work that day and was gone through most of the excitement. Apparently the goats got out and kept running through the freshly poured cement and they had to keep smoothing that out and putting the goat up. We have 4 new baby goats and apparently they get out and visit the workers a lot. I didn't realize they were doing this because I didn't see it and they never commented on it till the concrete fun.
When I got home I quickly got the goats locked up and then gathered all the kids together and we were just in time to put their hand prints in the cement in front of our house.

I just had time to get Joe's hands in there before he had to run off to a scout troupe activity. After he left I realized I should have moved them up just a bit because the corner post will have to be right in his left hand print. Oh well.
After the prints we had more print problems. Apparently while I was gone Jeddie had spent the day at the window watching the men work with his nose glued to the window. In honor of his watchfulness they poured the few feet of left over concrete into a square form and drew his face in it to go in the backyard. After the hand prints Jeddie waited for his moment and as soon as my back was turned he took off and ran right through the concrete as did the dog.

This was of course after the crew of concrete workers had left to get a "cold drink". What ever it was they got wasn't enough for what kind of day they had had. They got back in time to smooth it all out again so there are no foot prints of any kind in the porch. There are however several dog and cat prints in the kitchen extension. Thank heaven that will be tiled and won't show permanently.
Needless to say, I am very relieved to have that part done. I am free to let the chickens go again and don't have to watch them as closely anymore.

Garage

Just a quick post today. We are in the middle of our family reunion this week.
The crew was busy this week already. They poured the garage and did a fabulous job. Yesterday they started framing in the garage that will link the two houses. They are putting a shared laundry room in there next to the safe room.