Originally posted on 2021-01-31 The bin and all its contents disappeared! Obviously, it’s not really magic and it didn’t actually just disappear as we were home when they came and picked it up. In fact, we were still tossing in some last-minute items when they arrived. The bin was mostly full, but we reached aContinue reading “It’s Magic!”
Category Archives: Historical
Learning From What We’ve Done
Originally posted on 2021-01-24 Now that we’ve torn down the first part of the house and are working on cleanup we’ve decided that we’re going to be tearing down the other part of the house a little differently. We had thought that using the tractor to tear down the house was a really good ideaContinue reading “Learning From What We’ve Done”
Everything’s Temporary
Originally posted on 2021-01-17 Yet we still need to make it work. Knowing it’s temporary doesn’t mean we can make do with things that don’t work at all. The first thing that wasn’t working was the setup we had for all three of us being at home for the COVID crisis and the little oneContinue reading “Everything’s Temporary”
Our Current Living Situation
Originally posted on 2021-01-03 We hope everyone had a great holiday season and that 2021 is going well so far. Took a bit of a break for the holidays and because all we’ve really been doing is cleaning up the house followed by more cleaning up of the house. We are still living on-site, inContinue reading “Our Current Living Situation”
Clean up, Clean up!
Originally posted on 2020-12-06 Now that the house is partially down we need to get the debris out of the way so we can tear down more. Friday we had a very large bin delivered to our house so this weekend was spent clearing out the part of the house we’ve torn down. It wasContinue reading “Clean up, Clean up!”
Racing Against Winter, Again
Originally posted on 2020-11-29 Delay in getting permits then being sick has put us behind, but there are some things that needed to be done before the snow flies. As mentioned last week, we started to demolish the house. This week we were busy trying to completely detach parts from the part of that houseContinue reading “Racing Against Winter, Again”
It’s Demolition Time!!
Originally posted on 2020-11-22 Today we started the demolition of the house. We finally started the demolition of the house, tearing it down using the tractor. Since we are using the tractor is pretty much a one-person job. The biggest downside to starting this today is that it’s supposed to rain tonight and we can’tContinue reading “It’s Demolition Time!!”
The Blog Time Forgot
Originally posted on 2020-11-15 Okay, I’m the one that forgot it, but there’s no need to be picky! So before we could put in the foundation I talked about last week, we had to get concrete in for the footings. Due to us being sick there was a long time between building the frame forContinue reading “The Blog Time Forgot”
Building a Solid Foundation
Originally posted on 2020-11-08 Hey everyone! Really sorry I missed doing a post last week. It slipped my mind, but I will go back and write about getting the concrete truck in and getting the concrete poured. For now though I want to talk about all we had going on this week, or at leastContinue reading “Building a Solid Foundation”
A Place For Our Stuff
Originally posted on 2020-10-25 Trying to figure out exactly where to put everything has been a challenge, but we’ve also found some things we were wondering where it had gotten to. As we continue to prepare to demolish the eastern part of our house we’ve had the fun task of going through all our possessionsContinue reading “A Place For Our Stuff”
Huron The Lake 