Early snow

Wouldn't you know it...it's our first year with early snow and we're too busy to really get excited about it! It's nice to see anyway, and even better now that the roof metal is installed. We've seen some progress since the last update, including the finished roof! The electricians finished wiring around the middle of the month but little else has been done on the interior since then. We ordered the insulation for the interior today...the last bit of work before the drywall can go up. Max has been making headway on the exterior insulation and has two walls just about covered. Another big step towards winterization...half the windows are in now and the other half will soon follow now that the scaffolding has been moved to the north and west sides.


The east side is looking good.

It shouldn't take long to get the rest of the insulation up on these walls. Max has started reading up on installing siding but isn't looking forward to that job. It's gonna be a cold one!

The trees are getting frosty after several days of thick ice fog.

One of the last jobs of the fall was to put in the support posts for the deck...we kinda missed the fall though, so this job ended up being a lot tougher than it needed to be. We were faced with digging through 8" of frozen ground for the 12 posts. Luckily, our framer Marcus was putting another deck in just up the road and offered to piggy-back our job on the drilling equipment rented for our neighbor's deck. The holes got dug over the weekend and the cement got poured last night. Fingers are crossed that it can set up at 10F!