Keep on Pushin'

Another day, another "hi-ab." Due to chaos at the distributor, the truck was loaded such that it needed to be unloaded almost entirely before they could get to our gyprock. Wow, what a rib-tickler that was!


A little bit of the ol' sheet lead to cover the circuit box. That's right.


Sheet rock and some actual dust particles--sheet rock being the industry leader in dust generation. Amazing the filth that gyprock generates. The finest filth in the industry. It gets into everything. Dirty in a way rammed earth could never be. While we love our sheet rock professionals, and feel blessed and honored to find ones without a horribly debilitating addiction, in our future houses (ha!) all walls will be rammed earth--even on the second floor!


There will be lots of room for 'art.' Hands up, who likes 'art?'


Out door soffits. Vented even. Placed ever so with the help of family and friends alike.

The placement of the vented soffits...here's a thermodynamic question that has our local building professionals and neighbours calling one another nasty names: is it better to have the vents closer to the house or closer to the edge of the roof?


Here's a close up. Mesh for bugs, mesh for birds, all back for the season.


More soffit installation and sheet rock massage to follow.

Groovin' On

We brought the clients by the site today for some supervision. Yes, that's their mink blanket.



Hopefully we will finish the kitchen/family room ceiling tomorrow.



After that, it's the ceiling over the foyer and guest hallway.



We like tongue-ing and groove-ing so much, we may spring for cedar to install in the clothes closets.

Christmas in the morning, Easter in the afternoon

Crazy weather this week. It's fun to wake up with that snow day feeling, especially when we know we'll be working in our shirt sleeves at the end of the day.



We saw our neighbour in front of the post office. Howya doin' up there, Thor?!



Then we drove up to The Cemetary/Park to photograph the difference in climate from one part of the valley to the other.
This is the south end of the land mass that runs behind our property.
The older graves in the cemetary are covered with quartz or crushed colored glass. The effect is old fashioned and pretty, and doesn't need mowing or watering. Many tombstones appear homemade. More folks should hang out here recreationally and learn about their town!



The southwestern end peters out into sand, lots of sand. As you can see it gets much colder just west of this land mass. It's not the desert over there. That's what we love about this valley, the contrasts. Snow and sand. Water and land. Pine and sage. Cactus and peach.



We keep on truckin' with the T & G. It took four tries but we finally got this light in the entry centered correctly. Now we are quite deft with the jigsaw.



This weekend we'll work on the ceiling in the guest bedroom.



There's going to be a lot of anguish about stucco. Colour, texture, finish, nothing looks right, it's agonizing.