It's Coming Along

Roof and east side siding

Working on the north side

Along the north side

(Posted from the Madison County Library.)

Construction Update

(It's really a pain trying to keep up with a blog when you don't have internet service.)

Some recent progress on the house above Heck Creek . . .

The roof is on!

the last piece of roofing

The siding is going up!

Meanwhile, down in the utility meadow, the garlic is coming up.

 

(Posted from McDonald's in Weaverville.)

Construction update

Despite cold, rain, ice and snow, some work has been accomplished on the house above Heck Creek in the last month or so. The roof (minus the sheet metal) and decks are on. During the coldest days the carpenters worked indoors assembling the deck railings by the heater. Windows are in. (Richard admonished us not to remove the window labels until after all the inspections.) Rough plumbing and rough electrical work have been done.

looking up at the house

east face--bedroom and office windows

from up the hill

looking into the kitchen-dining-sitting room

Construction!

.... At last.  We have the framing started on our little house.

Ralph, Richard (the contractor man) and Glen (chief carpenter) 
discuss the progress.

It was a beautiful day for viewing the progress--rusty red oaks and green pines 

on the gray hillsides beneath a brilliant blue sky.

And a view from above. 

Crocus

In the late fall these delicate crocuses appear in yards all over the Midtown neighborhood and are soon buried in leaves.  

 A cuckoo wasp flies from bloom to bloom.

A Fungus . . .

Growing around a twig.

a woody polypore

 

Early November

Virginia Creeper

the last of the plumbago

a hosta says goodnight

Squash Harvest

One giant squash vine with very prickly leaves, a volunteer from the compost pile, thrived during the whistle pig invasion.  Ralph harvested over 30 pounds of squash from it.  Even though they aren't shaped like butternuts, they're butternut colored and taste like butternuts.