Noel has been a machine this week. Mid-week Noel and Timmy, the backhoe operator, laid out the footprint for the house. (Indy was bed-bound with a stomach bug and wasn't able to make the meeting. But that's another long story entirely. Suffice it to say that by the end of the week Noel's frustration with Indy was at its peak. But all is well now.) Nevertheless, Noel and Timmy took care of business. Here's how this worked. The two of them staked the four corners of both the house and the garage. Timmy then staked out all of the house corners with rebar and spray-painted the entire footprint. Back to this in a minute...
We knew that our flooring was set to be delivered this week. Oh, a minor obstacle arose the day prior to delivery. You see Old Dominion, you know that trucking company that is kind of popular, gave Mom (our friendly flooring receiver/contact dudette) a call and informed her that delivery to their house would be impossible with the inclined, graveled driveway and all. Humm...this could be a problem, but never fear we rallied the troops. Meet our troops: Will the uncle, Larry the cable guy, Noel the mole, and Mom the problem-solver. So thanks to all these dudes and the solo dudette for using their brains and brawn to move over 4,000 pounds of bamboo flooring from the grocery store in Lynchvegas (the rally locale) to the garage on Stone Creek Lane.
The eco-message on the side of each flooring box reads: 'This box is brown intentionally. By allowing this box to be its natural color, we are reducing the footprint on the environment. Please recycle this box when you are done.'
Dear Simple Floors, We will happily comply. Much love, Hannah and Noel
We are now one with the water. Going with the flow should be a bit easier now with our new water tap!
Water tap in the nude.
Oh, behave! Cover up your tap!
After the excitement of the flooring and the tap on Friday, Timmy got down and dirty with our footers. Meet Timmy...
Meet our footers... All of our footers are laced with rebar. People, these footers are not made for walkin'.
Meet Timmy and our footers...
And four truckloads of concrete later, we have footers.
And meet Jose...
Oh, don't act surprised! I have about 10 pics of my Latin concrete-smoothin', backhoe operatin', log sawin' luva. Just be surprised that I didn't put all 10 on here. If only he were a cowboy, too...
So thanks Timmy, Jose, Sam (he wasn't as privileged as Jose and Timmy to have his pic in this blog, but we appreciate him nevertheless), and the four concrete trucks for coming to work at 6 a.m. on Saturday and giving our home some solid feet on which to stand.
Up next (we hope)...a contractor who is not sick, some trenches, a temporary electrical pole and maybe, just maybe, some block.
By the way, Indy has locked in our lumber price! Good news considering the price of lumber in going up.
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