who's your daddy now?

Today was an epic day. This will be a long post, so let's get started.

Drywalling:
A perforated, bent strip of metal called "corner beading" is what you use to make crisp corners on the window returns.

In addition to working on most of the windows, the drywall guys focused on the seams between the wall and the ceiling.

The bedroom.

Roof
Three roofing guys appeared today and proceeded to make an IMMENSE amount of noise scraping the roof off the original house.

These guys work fast. Here they are having done half of the west side in something like a half hour.

And here they are dragging their haul into the dumpster.

This is the whirlybird thingy that one of the builders suggested we use instead of a ridge vent in the existing house. Apparently it will catch the least bit of wind, and do a pretty decent job of venting all the excess heat in the attic. This baby will get installed tomorrow.

Excavators.
The excavators came to dig the septic line and regrade the site. But you know, once you have all this big equipment on hand, there's all sorts of fun you can have with it. For instance, the old water tank, that's been languishing out on the lawn... why not just...

pick it up?

and squish it?

and take it over to the dumpster?

And that big rock that is gradually heaving itself up, a couple of inches per year, and wreaking havoc with the underside of my trusty Honda - the rock that is situated smack dab in the middle of the best parking spots on site? The one I managed to back over this very morning, while moving my car for all the guys' vehicles?

Why not dig that sucker up while we're here? It'll only take a minute.


Who's your daddy now?


Let's just move this puppy....

...over here. Out of the way.

Oh, and how about all those other piles of big rocks that have been lying around this whole time, ever since we dug the foundation?

How's about a nice little fire pit?

After that first boulder of doom got moved, Kevin and I went upstairs and met with Bonus Stephen and (correction: Alan) Alan-the-tiling-guy. We talked over our plans for the design for the tub/shower. Once Kevin and Alan got into some seriously geeky details, I wandered over to the window and watched the septic line being put in.

Here's the septic line itself.

By the end of the day, the trench was filled in and the line's location was marked with stakes, so that when we build a deck (translation: pay our friend Michael to build a deck), we don't accidentally sink the posts into the line.

Other site improvements happened as well.

Remember this pile, on the north side? That was this morning.

Same spot, end of day.

They're not done quite yet - under that blue tarp is a bunch of fill they'll use to raise the grade a bit more here and there. Just how big is that bucket, you ask?

me-size.