One Mother of a Blog

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This past Wednesday at 7:45 a.m. the big truck parked beside our driveway to deliver our new log home.   After years of planning and dreaming, it is hard to believe that the day is finally here.

We have been blessed to find a quiet, gentle contractor (back hoe guy) who works slowly methodically, and carefully.  No accidents, no problems bringing the pallets of logs, spikes, roofing material and miscellaneous items from the highway to the top of the house.

The windows and doors arrive next week.

DH is loving every minute of this, even when his stress level is through the roof!

This picture reminds me of Wall-E moving his compacted parcels around his work area.

For more pictures check out my flickr account

DH and I are both at home in the apartment with the kitty.  We have traveled all week again.  Check out my blog header.  DH took a panoramic view from our soon to be living room area (weather permitting).   By keeping our eye on this prize, it makes the travel worth it.  More pictures to follow to show how much has been accomplished this week.

Work on the home site was very slow last week, in fact some days it was just a drizzle.   The east coast was under a heavy rain front.  Luckily when the rain stopped for a bit and the sun tried to break through, the workers managed to get quite a bit done.

We had about one full day in total of reasonable weather.  The weekend was a washout with more rain and below seasonal temperatures.  As DH braved the elements in the travel trailer, I spent the week traveling the province.

Keeping our fingers crossed for better weather soon.  Check out more photos on our flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/61967910@N03/

Just when you thought it was safe to ask about how the house is coming along……………..
I’ve created a flickr account to post pictures of the construction.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61967910@N03/

The dozer guys are still working on the driveway, hauling in loads of gravel. Next week the footings will be poured.

Life is full lately. Not only are we building a home, I’ll be working in Moncton three days a week beginning Tuesday.

My one and only great grand-daughter, her Royal Highness Princess Isabella (aka Izzy) turns one year old today!   Happy birthday little one.

And…………..drum roll please………

Today after years of planning, dreaming, and boring our friends to death with the details, the sub contractor broke ground for our new home.    The project was scheduled to start a week ago, but Mother Nature brought a snow storm instead.    This morning she brought fierce rain showers with a bit of blue sky on the horizon.  The high ho driver had enough faith to start the drive way.

DH spent the day with the crew; calling to give me updates.   We thought the soil would be rocky, since there are are few major piles of stones scattered here and there.   But lo and behold, the first sweep with the dirt digger (can’t remember what it is really called) revealed beautiful top soil.   No one gets excited about good dirt like my DH.

Due to the grade of the land, the house will sit back further up the hill then we first thought.   For family who have tramped the ground with us,  our home will be almost on the site of the old farm-house foundation where the daylilies grow.    The high-ho driver gently moved a patch of lilies for us to transplant.

The new site gives us a better view of the bay.   The only downside is the three trees on the spot,  had to be removed, but the ancient apple tree is okay.

The dirt digger guy told DH that the property will look a lot worse before it looks better, as he will dig out the foundation, the road, the septic field, numerous ditches and a few berms.

To me it looks perfect.  Here’s the engineer’s drawing of the home we are building.