Crane's away!

Current interior work includes electrical, heating and plumbing. Doesn't make for grand photos, even though the house is sometimes full of people working away. However, we have photos from two more major events a couple weeks ago: raising the sides of the barn and lowering the cement slabs for the back deck.

Elroy Holsopple's framing classes at Goshen High School put the barn sides together and brought them out to set in place.

Even though the USB is on the walls and ceiling, Dennis found the barn floor soaked this morning. We've been having high winds and rain. Some rain even leaked in around the house windows. Better to learn that now.

The three cement slabs for the back deck each weigh 9000 pounds. The first crane sent to lift them got stuck in the sand and couldn't budget a beam. Here are photos of the large crane doing the job. Dennis was tempted to ask the crane to halt when a beam was directly over the house so he could get a clean shot . . . and then decided that wasn't the wisest request.

 

A furnace sits in the house, but we don't yet have electricity. Crews have been running kerosene heaters to get a bit of warmth into their bodies.

 

While the house OSB does look rather nice, the siding is a different color. I sort of forget which of many combinations we finally chose. Now we are looking at light fixtures, fans, appliances, finishing up kitchen and bath cabinet choices and avoiding decisions in any other parts of our lives.

 

No. We don't have a move in date. We just don't. Likely until the day before, we won't.