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November 18th, 2021

11/18/2021

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In case you were wondering about the house project, here is the latest update......

We have windows!  Woohoo!  Very Exciting!  I saw them the minute I walked in the house late yesterday afternoon!  Whoa!  Windows!  

They are big!  (love that) and double paned (woohoo!) and they open side to side rather than up and down as a traditional window does (I've never had that sort of window before so I have no idea how I feel about it yet).  There are four of them and it is a wonderful step forward! 

As in most construction projects, there are times of tremendous activity and times of minimal activity and time of zero activity.  Last week was zero. The week before was minimal. So having a driveway full of vehicles and a yard full of busy workers again has been exciting.  Yes it's noisy,  and dirty and sometimes inconvenient but that's just how it works. 

I rarely really know what's going on during any construction project.  I mean, obviously if there is a giant cement truck in your driveway, concrete is happening but otherwise, it's just a lot of dirt and noise to me.  At one point  earlier this week, I could hear them up on the roof.  Well I'm pretty sure it was the builder guys.  There was a whole lot of clomping and hammering and banging and  it's way too early for Santa and his reindeer to be up there. 

Basically until something really obvious has happened like y'know: walls, roof, windows, stuff like that, I don't have a clue what's going on.  In fact there have been days when, even though the guys were here working all day long, when I went out to peek at the room after they had left, it looked basically the same to me as it did before they arrived.  So clearly I do not have even the vaguest of ideas of what's being done on any given day.  Which, I suspect, also means that I am very easily impressed.

But I did notice the windows and it did, indeed, impress the socks off of me.   AND I also couldn't help but notice:
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Scaffolding!  Which means something high up is going to happen.  Could be pretty much anything I guess.  But I am hopeful that it is an indication that wall board will be going up in the near future.    It seems logical to me that first there would be floor, roof and outer walls. And then the stuff that happens inside of walls. And then the walls themselves.  Well, I see a floor, a roof and exterior walls, the electrician has been in and I'm pretty sure the insulation is in. That leaves.....  interior walls maybe?  Like I said, I honestly do not know. As long as they know.  And they keep showing up to work and moving this project forward.

Maybe it will be done in time for Christmas after all!  That would be nice.  If that room isn't done we won't be able to put up a tree.  Right now there is barely room for us in the house, there is no way that a Christmas tree will fit.  And yes, I know, Christmas can be celebrated without a tree. It wouldn't be the end of life as I know it.  And I won't be a whiney cranky baby about it if the room isn't done in time for Christmas, I swear.  But on the inside, I would be a little disappointed.  And then I would get over it.

I also cannot help but notice that while we have 4 big beautiful new windows, we do not yet have a door and I'm not sure what that means.
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Bulletins as they happen!
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