October 23, 2010: Back to Work

Eric is done with wind turbines for now, so it's back to work on more elegant things.

Today Darrin and Eric installed the cabinets permanently and put together the cabinet that houses the refrigerator.

October 13, 2010: More Visitors

Here are a couple more views of the work recently done, including the pantry floor which I didn't realize had been done until I was showing Tish the house!



Tish Buhr came by after our lunch at Beckie's. She is especially loving the kitchen. (Baking classes, anyone?)


And the Harris family came by after joining us for a long-awaited dinner together! Rachel and Jacob especially loved the "pink" room!

October 11, 2010: Exterior Work

We have workers today! (Discoverers' Day) Eric, Darrin and Roger worked on the exterior, adding the trim to the part of the house adjoining the old portion and building the gates for the crawl spaces.


End of work day for both guys... haven't had a chance to sit down and talk for a while! Nice break.

October 10, 2010: Family Visitors

It's Bennett's mom's birthday weekend, so on Saturday Charisa, Aunty Lauretta and the sisters who were in town blessed her with a tea party. Aunty Lauretta came by to check out the progress on the house.


Joycelyne and Jon also checked it out.


Later in the afternoon, Jason & Pam Joe with baby Riley came by. They are regular followers of the blog, but there's nothing like seeing the real thing! Even with it's (very) colored walls!

October 8, 2010: Quiet Week

Eric is still on the Wind Turbine job, so it's been a quiet week at the plantation. But we did have visitors.

Phil & Leslie McCallum were in town, so we shared our almost-done place with them.


Our new neighbors were having a birthday party, and we discovered Royce Kawakami among their guests! So Bennett gave him the grand tour.

October 3, 2010: Bedroom Flooring!

Roger's tasks for the day included caulking all the pukas where the pipes went into the house from underneath...


...and scraping all the spots from the drywalling and painting so that the floor would lay evenly.

So thankful for this attention to detail that will make the house much more pleasant to live in!

In preparation for punching the hole between the two houses, Eric and Thomas laid the flooring in the spare bedroom. We'll be moving into that room so that Michael can move into ours (and Charisa can just move out of the way!). What an adventure this will be...

Before...


The process...


After...


Of course, this is what it looks like now, until construction is finished...


Oh, and my favorite wildflowers are blooming on the strip in front of the house...

October 2, 2010: Grouting the Bathroom Floors

Buster and Herb were at it again! They finished both bathroom floors. Now all we have to wait for are the bathroom vanities, coming by slow boat from Indonesia.


Both bathrooms off limits until the grout dries.

Eric came by to drop off plywood shelving material for the closet and pantry shelves.