Here is my patrol's totem from Wood Badge.

Bobwhites rule the roost!

Picture Troubles

So, appearently I don't know how to use the slideshow website Rock You! very well. If you click on the link at the bottom of the last post that says View All Images, you can see the slide show of our house moving pictures. Sorry that I couldn't get it to work.

We've Got Contact!!

We have been so busy working on the house that I haven't made a post for a while, over a month actually. A lot has happened!

We were able to get the basement floor poured during the first week of March. Then my Dad came and I helped him build the bearing wall.

On March 10th Valgardson & Sons, the house movers, came up and started getting set-up. We scrambled during the first couple of weeks that they were here working on things to finish getting things ready for them to move the house. they ended up framing in the garage end of the house for us so that they could move it more easily, and then they lifted the house up and moved it. They had the house lifted up off the foundation on March 18th, moved off to the side of the foundation on the 19th, and then they walked it down the road the 24th, rolled it over the new foundation the 25th, and set it on the new foundation on the 26th. The pictures tell more about the process than I can. Needless to say, it was pretty exciting to be able to watch the major parts of the process, and it is especially exciting to have a house sitting on our mud lot!!!


My goal for now is to get temporary occupancy within one month of the day that they set the house on the foundation. That will be April 26th. We've got a lot of work to do between now and then, but I think that it is doable. The heating guys came yesterday and today (April 1st and 2nd), the plumber will be there tomorrow (April 3rd), and hopefully we can get some electricity going this weekend. So, we are making progress.


We appreciate everybody's excitement and help!

How Firm A Foundation

Much has happened since we posted last. Last Monday, February 18, we were able to get our footings poured. They sat for a couple of days while more work was being done, and then we poured the foundation on Friday, February 22. We only had to work until 11:00 Thursday night to finish getting the forms set up for the pour at 11:00 Friday morning. The weather mostly cooperated, and it only snowed a little bit while we were pouring on Friday. The building inspector said that he hasn't seen such a good job done on rebar in a long time. The guys did a great job for us.

Next we get to start stripping the forms. That will be a big job, but hopefully we can get it done quickly.

Pink House? What Pink House?

So I drove up to the house this morning to see how things were going, and lo and behold, this is what I found. A big pile of debris. And so it begins. We are off to a running start. It was even warm enough at 7:45 this morning, without the sun yet even, that the snow was melting off the roof of the garage. I'm feeling good about our decision to get started this week. We are just praying that it stays like this...

Here We Go

We are excited to announce that we will be getting started this coming Monday!! If the weather warms up like it is supposed to, we will be getting the house torn down and hauled off on Monday January 14th, a hole dug and footings poured on Tuesday, and hopefully a foundation poured by the end of the week. We are trying to hit a window of what looks like it should be warmer weather so that we can get the house moved before the ground thaws and turns into a mucky mess.

More pictures and exciting details should be posted in the next few weeks. Stay tuned...

First Pictures

So, now it's the end of January and we are hoping to really get going with the house next week. The excavator says that he will come tear the house down next week, and then we will watch the weather and hopefully hit a good week or two of slightly warmer weather so that we can get the concrete done.

We got our building permit back on December 18th last year, but we have been waiting for the excavator and the weather since then.

In the mean time, I have had a little fun using the neighbor's back hoe. I tore down the back portion of the house, at least as much as the back hoe could reach. It was fun and a little therapeutic. Now we will leave it to the excavator.

My Dad and I got a new power meter set up and working on the side of the garage, so we have power to work with. The well is finished also. Now if we can just figure out what to do with the two feet or so of snow that is covering the yard, we will be off and running. I'm thinking we'll have to find a front-end loader somewhere and just pile most of it in the field.

Below are some pictures of when we bought the old house, when we took the siding off, and what it looks like currently. The fourth picture is of the house that we are moving the night that we took all of the brick off.

This is turning out to be quite the experience, but we are excited to really get going!