We have a Floor! and Roof!

Lots of progress made the last couple weeks.  We had a few more scorching hot days, one reaching about 100'.  Travis traveled to North Carolina for a work trip and decided to stay a few days after his classes finished and meet up with his parents to do the Blue Ridge Parkway in the RV with his parents.
I will have him make a post with some pictures from his trip later. While he was gone I was busy painting trim boards for Jean and shopping for doors.

Jean and his helpers got the garage all closed in last week.

This past weekend Mom and Dad came down to help me do the Electrical. We ran wire and hooked up the box, receptacles, lights, and switches for the first floor.

Monday we woke up to a monsoon.  The concrete was supposed to get poured early on Monday AM. Jean and some helpers showed up very early to make sure the roof was water tight. They were out there is the pouring rain putting down water shield. They tried to cancel the concrete that morning but they had already had the truck ready to go.  When the truck got here about 7am it was still raining hard. While the guys were all talking in front of the garage Jean looked down to the end of the driveway where the concrete truck was and noticed there was water sloshing out the back of the truck.  Turned out that the reserve water tank had malfunctioned and dumped 300gals of water into the concrete. Ended up being a blessing since the rain persisted hard all day. They rescheduled for today and the floor went in this AM.

While the concrete guy worked on the floor Jean and his crew worked on the roof.  The shingles and metal roofing all went up today. The breezeway roofing is all that is left.

The Heat Continues

The Hot and humid weather persists. It has been at least 5 days of 90's and sunny during the day. Last weekend I made up for missing my first 4th of July ever not in Milli.  I went home and spent the weekend with friends and family. Went for a hike and watched the rafters come down the falls on the Nob. Spent a lot of time swimming in the Pond and sipping cocktails on the patio.

 Uncle Doug, Missy Dog, and Mom watching the rafts surf the falls.

 Aunt Sue and Ozzy Dog

 The gangs all here. Dad, Sue, Sherri, Mom and Doug

 View from the Crib works.

This is what I came home to after the weekend.  The framing is pretty much done just the detail work now.  Mom and Dad are coming down this weekend to do all the wiring.  Sounds like i will be painting trim boards for the next few days in the heat. I am trying to bribe a friend to help since Travis is out of town for the week for work.

July so far

I have been too busy with work and 4th of July fun to post but there has been a lot of progress on the garage. They worked on getting a floor in for the second floor. 

We took some time 4th of July to go out on the Ocean to try to stay cool since it was in the 90s and humid. We spent the day at Gosling Islands. We picked up our friends Todd and Nicole at the dock in time to have diner and watch the sunset from Peaks Island.  We watched the Fireworks from the Harbor on the boat.

 The weekend was spent painting trim boards for the garage. We also had a picnic with Travis's Family then a Lobster Feast and Party with friends Sat night.

This week they have made some very noticeable progress by putting up all the walls for the second floor and the end trusses with trim.  We should have all the trusses up by the end of the week, however the rain has started back up again. Jean and the crew are still out there every day though in the Heat and Rain doing hard work.

These two pics were taken this am on my way to work before they had finished putting up the fourth wall. I will take new pics again the end of the week.

The Summer is flying by!

This past weekend Travis and I took separate fun trips. He went to our friends camp in VT while I took an overnight trip up to Belfast to visit with mom and the Hornes.  The rain has been relentless. June was the rainiest June on record.  Summer seems to have not even started yet weather wise but it is almost the fourth.  I am really ready for some dry sunny days in July. This week they are working on getting all the first floor walls up.   

 Our soon to be breezeway entrance.

Two out of four walls woo hoo.