This week, the Totten household celebrated two major milestones:
- Parker's due date actually arrived - that's nice
- We have a roof on our house! Well, sort of.
The Shirtless Mafia (our construction team) has been hard at work since they got started, and most definitely since Tiny Tots came. From the outside, the progression has been slow and steady, hard to imagine how it will all come together - more lumber keeps showing up and blocking my driveway, only to be applied somewhere under this gigantic tarp above. The boys spend more time tarping and de-tarping than they do actually banging nails. Apparently, in Seattle, you can never be too sure about moisture rolling in.
In any case, the walls are officially all framed up and we're just about ready for the sheeting. We have a peak-a-boo view of the cascades from Treva's new closet, that's kind of nice. I've got some pictures below of the progression - note that in the the first two pictures, there still is no roof, just a tarp over our front porch and it's flat behind that. We still have a lot left to do, but pretty cool to see the rooms all framed up and waiting for me to leave piles of clothes in!
dwt.
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| Facing South - this is looking from back to front on our house |
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| Facing north - more lumber |
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| Official Nominee for: Queen Anne's "Most Curb Appeal" Award, 2011 |
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| Back Porch view - with the ladder the boys use every day to get up to the roof |
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| The "shouldn't you be saving the money you're spending on this remodel for my college education?!" face |
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