October 16, 2010: You're Sleeping in my Garage

On Saturday we met up with Chris's parents and headed over to check out the house. I hadn't been there since they actually started working on the HOUSE, not just the land, so I was pretty excited (Chris drove through a week ago, but it was too dark for pictures). There had certainly been lots of activity:



There was tons of lumber everywhere - we were a little confused as to why it looked like a big pile of pick-up-sticks, but oh well...



We got there around lunch time, so the workers (yup, they've been working on Saturdays) were all away from the site on their lunch break. Well, all except one, who'd pulled up a patch of concrete and was taking a snooze. He woke up as we got out of the car, and I told him "You're sleeping in my garage." He just sat and watched as we poked around (you can see him on the right):



At the corner of the garage, with the front porch area and the front of the living room on the far left:



The front half of this side is the living room, the back half is the dining room. You can see the little basement windows:



Standing in the garage, where there's a storage area in the back. You can see the place where our fireplace will poke out on the right hand side:



We were also really impressed with the landscaping they've done - you can see it in the photo above, and here's a detail - the big hill is all planted, and there are 2 trees that will eventually block our view of the rancher above. Nice.



It's still hard to tell from seeing just a footprint, but the framing will be done this week, and we'll finally have something resembling a house!