Yesterday we took Diana to Primary Children’s Medical Center for a heart checkup. Diana has a congenital heart defect called “ASD” that consists of a hole in her heart as well as veins that aren’t properly draining into the heart. The official term is Atrial Septal Defect with Anomalous Venous Connection. Because [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2006
Second floor continues…
Today I went with Nancy to the house. They had started the exterior walls on the second floor. The stairs to the second floor and the basement are also in now.
Front of the house. You can see the stairs through the front entranceway
Second floor exterior walls
Starting the second floor…
They laid the beams for the second floor today. No steps up to the floor yet.
Looking from the kitchen to the family room
You can see the fireplace behind Anne. If I remember right, we only got a fake-gas log fireplace – not a woodburning one.
Caroline stands in the driveway
The master bedroom is partially [...]
Framing Continues…
It’s amazing to see how fast the walls go up in just a matter of days. Today they completed the exterior walls on the first floor and started on the interior walls. Still no steps down into the basement yet.
Looking from the kitchen towards the garage entrance
Anne and Caroline in the front yard
Start of Framing
When Nancy went by the house today they had finally started framing. It’s amazing how fast they can put the walls up once they get going.
From the back yard – looking at the family room
From the driveway – looking at the garage
The front entrance
The black hole to the basement
They weren’t any stairs down into the [...]