The Butterfly Farm

Mara recently got a present from her Nana that let her raise her own butterflies. Mara took good care of them and raised five butterflies. She released them today. It was a lot of fun for her and she wants to do it again.
Other than moving some dirt we took the weekend off at the house. Back to work on Monday!

Walls Complete!

Well that was a bit of a process! The basement walls are up and full of concrete. We used a pump truck and got them filled nice and solid.
That is just the final step in what was a long-hard week. We worked a ton of hours to get it braced and ready. We even got my brother here to help. We worked all day on Wednesday and into the dark on Thursday. We were at it before the sun came up on Friday (sunrise picture) and were ready to pour right on time. The pour went great (no blowouts) and now we have solid walls. We plan on taking a very short break, this weekend i guess, before getting the basement floor ready to pour.
In other news we got the new website online.

Check it out at www.trinidadstate.edu

the sports section isn't complete so I am still using my old pages but other than that it is a go.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Progress, tired progress

It was a hot one today but we still got quite a bit done. Melissa and her dad got the septic pipe into the basement as well as a conduit for the electrical line.
Dad and I got the rest of the foam up. We even had mom out helping carry Styrofoam around and getting us tools.
We hope to pour the cement in on Friday and then we are moving up.
Tired but happy today!

More basement work

Dad and Uncle George got the window and door bucks built on Tuesday so we hit it hard today. I took the day off from the new job. First day off in a long time. Dad, Melissa and I got the front wall all the way up and got all four windows installed. I'm thinking of adding a fifth just to slow down the process. The door will be a challenge we tackle later this week. For now we are all exhausted.
Oh, by the way, the new job I keep talking about is still at the college. I am now the Web Designer/Web Developer. Not much changes work wise except I am in charge to the whole web site instead of just the sports section. Our new web site will be online soon so I will let you all know so you can see how I've spent my summer.

Basement Walls

We got the walls started today! We had a slow start because we had to re-dig part of the footer because the rains we've had knocked some dirt in. After that it was all walls. We got the first row almost done and are ready to go up. It looks bigger now that we have some walls.

Progress

Sorry about the delays between posts, we've had some internet problems. But we're back! Pastor Cook and my dad came by and helped us unload a semi full of basement materials. We actually filled the garage with styrofoam. Then Melissa got a backhoe and she and her dad got the septic tank installed. The four of us got the leach field done despite a ton of rain. We are moving forward!

Floor Plans