Let's see- Where are we now?

Thank goodness for family!

Without Arlene and Terry- this project would have been impossible to complete. Not only has Terry provided his earthmoving talents but they both have been sharing their home with us. Our spot is the front slanted roof portion of the house. Not only are we occupying their home but we are also taking up one side of their garage. All of our worldly possessions are in one stall of their garage. I am sure they will be glad to see us get into our own space. Hopefully by October we will be in the our new home.

We've been berry picking up on the Denali highway. Climbed up a steep hillside to find blueberries along the ground like strawberries. One hour later we had about 2 gallons of wild blueberries. It is a bit disconcerting when Mike straps on his "bear" gun. I guess we are all competing for the berries. This last weekend we picked cranberries at our own place. Once again we had a gallon of cranberries for future jelly and cranberry ketchup.

You all have to forgive me for not getting the updates on here as quickly as they should be. A lot of the work that is being completed until today was "small stuff" like outdoor lights, receptacles, oiling and wrapping plastic on all of the windows. The constant sweeping, cleaning and picking up also keeps us busy. Mike got our cradle built for the 500 gallon fuel tank. We picked the diesel tank up today and onto the cradle it went. I have tiled/grouted our Japanese soaking tub deck area as it had to be completed prior to the sheetrock installation. My other job has been caulking all the seams under the deck. I now have cedar colored caulk all over my painting bibs- not a pretty sight.

Plumber "Ritchie" is still working on the heating and plumbing system. I think this project was much bigger than he thought. A quick peek into the "boiler" room shows you all of the pipes and valves required to heat our house. Ritchie sits on that bucket everyday- putting pipes together to get it all routed to the right places.

Now today- things really started to move. Current River Electric moved all of the digging equipment in and started to lay in our cable for electricity. We got all of our transformers and cable and the power is now in sight. It seems like it has taken a long time to get to this point.
The great news is that we have red cable running down the side of the road- tomorrow it will be buried and connected to the transformers in the near future (hopefully next week).

The drywall people started hanging sheetrock and will be done with that today. They sent a crew of 6 to get it done quickly. It is amazing to watch them cut, lift, fit and screw all of the pieces like a gigantic jig saw puzzle. Tomorrow they will start to tape the seams. Then the mud, then paint, then flooring- Oh Boy!! We are getting closer!