lumber

What a beautiful day!  Actually think I sunburned my face and got back to work on my sunglass tan! The carpenters finished up the garage and then worked hard preparing for the crane to show up tomorrow.  They spent a good portion of the day doing something I didn’t even Read More

7:40 AM right as the carpenters were showing up Read More

Holy cow that’s a lot of wood is what I thought as I drove up State Street and looked at the gigantic pile of trusses sitting on my front yard.  Even more remarkable is the fact that there was another huge pile sitting in the backyard.  What a roof system, and they’re of so Read More

The weather hasn’t really been our friend this week, but what else can you expect up here in Northern Maine!  We have a beautiful summer with scarcely a moment of bad weather and then we start building a house and the farmers start harvesting their potatoes and it’s Read More

Finding it awfully challenging to concentrate on schoolwork with the house being built throughout the day.  Seems like I want to be right in the middle of everything throughout the day and seldom get what I wanted accomplished during the day.  Not like it’s going to change Read More

The carpenters finished most of the fourth wall on Thursday and then it rained all day on Friday, and we cut some trees this morning to clear out the view towards Big Rock and Aroostook State Park.  A big thank you to Steve Higgins for cutting most of the big stuff! Onto Read More

Day 2 of framing and the house is going up quickly!  It’s so amazing how at different points in this project the house has looked small, then it looked bigger, and small again, and I’m happy to say now that they’re raising the walls it’s looking awfully Read More