Demilec Spray Foam Insulation trailer arrives!

 

Radiant floor heat on the balcony.

Jimmy and Donald tied all the tubing for the balcony to get the concrete poured....next is the spray foam insulation, this week....Demilec is sending a tech to help us get started with the process.

The Aspens are starting to change!

 

Rainbow!

While cutting and burning the diseased trees, yesterday....A beautiful rainbow appeared....it was only there for about 15 minutes....

The Burn Pile

 

Jimmy's tree removal service.....

Entrance!

Today, they poured, stained and stamped the front porch and walkway......its so pretty! 

Pinetop carshow and fly-in 2012

Today was another day in paradise....beautiful day, in the 70s, so we got the '69 Olds out of the neighbor's garage and drove to the Sierra Blanca airport for the "planes, trains and automobiles" show!
It was a very enjoyable day, saw several people from out of town, even El Paso!

Wrapping the house

Finally! The house is being wrapped and meshed getting ready for the stucco!

Weeds!

I have no idea what these are, except pretty weeds, but I asked Jimmy to take a picture!

Exhausted Rufous hummingbird

 

Now that the windows are in....a poor little hummingbird got in and couldn't figure out how to get out of the house. He kept flying back and forth in the window...he was so exhausted that Jimmy caught him.....he rested a little then after about 10 seconds, flew away!

Fireplaces and windows!

I got my fireplaces in, upstairs and down....now, my windows have arrived!
It's getting close to being dried in!

Skunkface!

Getting a bath!

Skunkface!

Thursday night, as we were walking to the Coach to go to bed, Nikki decided to chase a skunk!
Soooooo,
Jimmy headed to Walmart at 10:00 pm to by all the stuff we needed to "de-skunk" her. Thank goodness it was only a glancing blow, down the side of her face to her shoulder...no eyes!
If anyone needs the recipe....here it is:
the first thing you do is act fast....don't let it dry out.
2-3 teaspoons of Dawn dishwashing liquid....its better than off brands. 1/2 cup of baking soda and 2 pints of hydrogen peroxide. For little dogs, cut in half.
We used a wash mitt and scrubbed her. Also, don't let it get on your skin or clothes!
Then bathed her in her normal shampoo.
Then the magic......
Buy the pink Massengill at the store...mix 4 oz. with 2 gallons of water, pour it all over the dog and let it sit for 15 minutes, then rinse really well.
I swear it works there's NO TRACE of smell on her.
I have friends who didn't use tha Massengill, the dog doesn't smell....until it gets wet, like rain....then its back, weeks later!

More roof shots......

Here are some more roof shots, the footings for the front porch and Jimmy took a couple of pictures from across the valley.

Loving' Spoonful!

We had a wonderful break from the stress of the house, last Saturday.
The Lovin' Spoonful came to town!

Almost have a roof!

I almost have a roof! Jimmy is standing on top of the Coach garage, says the view is really great from there.
I won't be crawling up there to see!

The crane arrived at 8 am, on a cloudy, cool day.......of all days we've prayed for rain....we don't need it today!

My Roof Arrives!!!

The roof trusses finally arrived! Can't believe they got it all on one truck. It's like a giant erector set......8 trusses bundled together, 12 bundled, etc. they go to different places on the house. The trailer they came in on was fascinating...it had rollers and the driver slowly pulled up then backed up fast, slammed into the trailer and the wood started rolling off. Then he hit a button that started lifting the front end and the rest rolled off as he pulled forward......gentle as could be!

Turkey trot!

So cute!!

A whole family of turkeys just passed through the campsite, by my front door! There were about a 20 of them......5 adults and the rest chicks! I had to scramble to get these pics!

Preparing for the roof!

 Jimmy,
Donald, another neighbor, and the framers were preparing the porch for the roof trusses, due in on Tuesday. Had to have a small crane place the 38' beam in place, so Jimmy could weld the upstairs steel posts to it. By the way, I had to buy Jimmy some suspenders....his pants keep falling off! haha!

Jimmy. the welder!

Here's Jimmy, with help from JR....welding the upstairs steel posts!

17 steel support posts for the balcony!

Jimmy, JR and our neighbor AD (who did most of the welding) finally got all the steel tubing in place and are now putting the I-beams in place for the balcony. For those of you that think this is overkill....Jimmy decided that he wanted the balcony to have the same stained, stamped concrete as the porch, down below. 4" of concrete presents a whole new weight issue, so we had to have it re-engineered! (sigh)

looking like a house!

Jimmy, JR, AD and the 4 framers put up the first HUGE support beam across the steel posts, downstairs that will be supporting the concrete balcony. There are 17 steel posts....I don't think the balcony will be going anywhere! The house may collapse, but the balcony will be there, forever!

The house grows......

The bus garage is up and they're working on the top floor! (the main floor) in my "upside down" house!
All that's downstairs is a couple of guest rooms and a living area. The upstairs has the Master, another guest room, kitchen, great room, Jimmy's office, laundry, the garages, etc. And the kitchen has an all glass floor to ceiling 15' door that opens out onto the deck....pretty cool!

The container arrives!

In the meantime, JJ, Jimmy's Godson, borrowed the 45"flatbed trailer from the local sheriff, and went to Fort Worth and got our container full of furniture and "stuff". It was a real "squeeze" to get it through the Woodwinds.....a fact that is my point exactly!! A moving van couldn't get through there!