No pictures today, the memory on my camera is full and I need to figure out which pictures have been stored on my laptop before I delete them from the camera, assuming of course, that I can figure the latter out. (Yes, Seb is away, my favourite tech support crutch is in Germany again.)
I visited Mystery Hill yesterday with some family and friends and can report the following:
-all the windows are in except for those on second floor in stair case silo. They're waiting to install these til after the front porch has been framed.
-all the interior rooms have been framed, even those in the basement.
-we have stairs in the garage to the room above, as well as the stairs to the basement. And the guys have installed a temporary staircase from first floor to basement (in silo) because they're up and down so often. Unfortunately there is still a ladder to the second floor which means only the brave venture up for a look.
-we have started installing vents and plumbing
-we ordered our garage doors yesterday and we'll have them in 5 to 7 weeks.
I've started working with Linda Chapman, our architect, on the kitchen design, and will be calling on Irene Langlois, our designer, to help in selecting bathroom fixtures. Apparently the guys need to know about tubs to locate drains ...
That's all for now. Hopefully next time will be with photos.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
30 cm of Snow!!!
Seb is away for several weeks on business in Germany and as such, "his" jobs are delegated to me. This includes the kitty litter, the garbage and shovelling the driveway. Please note that every year I ask him to pay for snow shovelling service but he declines because he likes the exercise. In any case, he's away and we have no service. :-) Ottawa got 30 cm of snow between Fri afternoon and Sat morning. Here's how my morning went: got up and started shovelling snow plow ridge at end of driveway at 7am, finished at 730am, put on running clothes for 8am class. Decided to take a run for it, from garage to road, trusting snow tires would do the trick. (Only had time to shovel the snow plow ridge at edge of road but not the actual 30 cm in driveway.) Got stuck. Proceeded to shovel car out and rest of driveway. Snowplow came again. Shovelled more. Tried to move car several times but was spinning on ice. Had to call Rebecca and Phil to give me a push. Missed running. Spent entire morning shovelling and cursing husband.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Mystery Hill
Progress is very good but its all in the details -- duct work, plumbing for the heating systems, lots of books on electrical stuff... The interior is almost completely framed, they'll be doing the basement framing next. We discover lots of subtleties as paper hits reality... for example, we're eliminating a closet in one of the guest rooms because it's original spot would block a beautiful example of our timberframe construction and the only other plausible spot blocks a window. So we'll buy an armoire and hope for the best. This will be a beautiful place, all these small details make for art!
The Boys - Changing the bed...
As all my cat loving friends know, Mr's Big and Murphy are very helpful --- here they help change the sheets...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Happy New Year!
Anyone tracking the weather in Ottawa knows its been very mild and we've had a lot of rain after huge amounts of snow. The result: water! At Mystery Hill, we had a small problem because a drainage pipe got buried (by accident) when we got electrical service. The good news... nothing got in the basement!
We also started the steel roof. This is the view of the front (non water side) view of master bedroom with the roof.
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