The title to this post is the question which we are most frequently asked these days. Short answer: The addition is coming along just fine. We haven't really worked on it for the last three months but it's coming along just fine.
Tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of this blog. I was supposed to be chronicling the trials and tribulations of adding on to our home. As I quickly scanned the entries of the last year I noticed that by no means are all of them about the addition. Granted most of them are but not all. We've been doing a lot of other stuff too and that's kind of where we're at right now.
Last year our building project was pretty much all consuming; then the weather turned really lousy; then we got an extension on our building permit; (now the pressure is off for another six months); then when the weather got nice again we noticed that we had kind of let things slide around the place. We've been busy doing spring clean up kind of things. I recently found a fence that had disappeared under a tangle of blackberries. Grace discovered that our side yard was also being (re)consumed by them and she reclaimed it. We had cleared all of this stuff out when we moved in and it was beginning to revert to its "pre-Al&Grace" state. We also set up a fence after we discovered that lambs don't swim well. (Oh yeah, we also had lambs earlier in the spring.) I finally put up a curb using treated 4x6's so that Jesse's friends would be able to distinguish between lawn and driveway. (The first time one of them came over he ran over it and dug up the yard...)
We've done other things too. Things that don't even involve our property or house or barn... (We do have a bit of a life...) So that's the state of the blog at one year. Don't worry faithful readers (both of you) - more addition adventures are just around the corner!
Next up, interior framing! Then rough plumbing and electrical. It's going to be a fun summer.
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We have enjoyed your blog over the last year Al. It's good to hear you are keep a balance in life as we know these projects can be very consuming. Hard to believe a year has passed already! I think you need to arrange an "addition completion bee" so your friends and contacts can come and help you wrap things up in one day.
I guess if anyone can relate to the consuming nature of these projects it's you & R! As to a "completion bee" - nice idea but we're not that close yet.
A completion bee sounds good, as long as I only bring food and watch you all finish it up.
After the addition is all done, what new blog them will you choose, Al?
Food is always welcome! As to a new blog - I think this one will keep me plenty busy until the whole blogging fad has gone the way of the dinosaurs...
So who's the 'other' faithful reader?
apparently either Mel or Joyce...
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