A Sunny Day and Siding

The siding is going up, starting with the back of the house.

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Topping Out

Glenn and Dan have put the last stone on the fireplace. What a job it has been. Tomorrow is clean up, so the stones will be spic and span and ready to show all their character. The scaffolding will also come down. Next test....does it draw????

Beehold, the Bees

On Wednesday, Don installed two bee nucleuses into their new residence on the southeast knoll of the property. They will be well protected from bear attacks, thanks to the electric fence surrounding them. They were moved into two new hive boxes, single story to start, with floors to be added as the family expands, and painted a traditional white...which they could care less about I'm sure.

I imagine what they really care about is having lots of blossoms, lots of nectar, and for this rain to stop so they can get out to collect it all.

Just Me

That's me taking a break and checking out the upstairs fireplace progress.

It's Saturday, and Don and I were doing 'yard' work at the property. I brought over lots of perennial plants from Butler Farms that I'm going to want in a garden here. Don tilled up a big patch of ground for a holding-over garden. Don worked at getting an electric fence erected around the patch of ground where the bees will be living. Wednesday the hives arrive.

Rain or Shine....

we'll be well protected. The roof is now finished. Our new, standing seam, dark bronze, roof is expected to last a lifetime. Good thing we really like it! I think by the end of next week, when the siding may also be done, or at least coming along, we'll get to see how well our color scheme works. It looked good in our mind's eye.

Everything AND the Kitchen Sink

This morning, I was emailed the kitchen design. I love it when it's no longer left to my imagination. They even added a view over the kitchen sink.

Testing, testing.....

Andy bought one box of the siding we had picked out for us to 'try on' and for the crew to see how well it goes up. Everyone agrees...it's a 'go'. Andy will now place the full order and the rest of the siding will begin to go up sometime next week.

ROCK ON!

The stones are being built up on the fireplace in the den. In this picture, the blue-stone hearth is covered by some boards, but you can see the very substantial blue-stone

mantle. We decided to go with a stone mantel because the heat being thrown from the fireplace was apt to dry out and warp a wooden mantel.