heading into fall (again...)

Ok, so I'll admit it - there's a bit more to this whole "addition thing" than we realized when we committed to it. But, we're past the point of no return and so we soldier on. We're not discouraged or anything, we've just had to revamp our deadline goals to adjust to the realities of lack of time, motivation, skill, etc. Regardless, we consider ourselves to be "on track". (No smart alecky comments please...)

As you might have guessed from the lack of blog activity, we had kind of a slow summer.(Someone asked me a few weeks ago whether I'd been having any "additional thots" lately.) We actually got quite a bit done. It only seems like we haven't been doing much due to no blog posts. Also, most of the things we completed were things I had already written about as if they were done. (You'll remember we are fairly notorious for not getting things "all the way" done.)

Our rough electrical is finished and has passed inspection as has our rough plumbing. We timed it so that the inspections were done at the beginning of autumn. This way we have a full six months before another inspection is necessary. That's something we've learned since last year - we won't need an extension for our building permit when spring arrives.

Currently we are putting up insulation and beginning to ponder punching a doorway into our exisiting house so that the addition can be accessed from inside during the winter. Right now we get in through a piece of missing wall beside the front porch. It will seem weird to be able to get to the addition without going outside. This way we can get some of the inside work done during the course of the winter. On the negative side, this means mess getting tracked into the house...

There you have it. Things are moving right along.... slowly but surely...