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Here's some recent shots of our home and its construction.

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Above you can see our house as it's been -- more or less -- since we moved in, in Janurary of 1986.  (Yow!)  We fixed the front roof (and added the skylight) and put the big deck out front.  The main door and windows face east.   The carport is on the south.  We put a metal roof on the carport, because the old one was in bad shape.  There was also a really terrible shed on the north side which we removed long ago.  That's our neighbor Dave's house to the west.  The "celotex" is gone now, replaced with new white siding.  Before Dave bought the place, we thought it might fall or burn down at any time.

Our addition is being put on the north side of the house -- in the big green yard between the house and that shagbark hickory tree.  Fortunately, it's not taking up too much of the yard, though it would replace some carefully cultivated weeds, and an overgrown bush (the "climbing tree") which -- after trying unsuccessfully to kill it when we fixed the sagging basement -- we'd all grown quite fond of.

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Construction started in mid-November, 2003.  After clinging on tenaciously all these years, the big shovel machine pulled the "climbing tree" away from the side of the house in moments.  Nature doesn't stand much chance against construction equipment.  The former wild bush now lies (sadly) near our north fence line.  I wouldn't be surprised if it takes root there.  I don't know if I'll replant it deliberately, though.  It was very ugly, if somewhat loved.  I don't think you can see it in any of these pix, but you can make it out in the dirt pile shot below.  Somehow, I didn't take any pix of the actual digging process -- which was pretty cool.  I did bring Kendall home from school one lunchtime to watch it, though.

The first pic above is of the "big hole" the concrete guys dug -- and then filled with gravel and "footing" forms.  The 2nd pic is the construction guys finishing up prep on the wall forms.  In the third shot they're pouring the cement.  In the 4th, Kendall peeks around near the corner of my studio.  (My north studio window will look into the new addition's basement.)

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More construction pix.  In the first, they've pulled off the forms and you can see the brick-patterned concrete basement walls.  In the 2nd pic, you can see the workers wrestling with the girder which will help support our floor.  The 3rd pic shows the revealed side of the basement (west) and the floor joist I-beams going on top of it.  The 4th picture shows the floor (deck) mostly in place.  On the left, you can see the hole where our stairway will go into the basement (and above to the attic).

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We had our old, crappy windows replaced with new energy-efficient ones.   While the concrete guys were working on the basement, our carpenter/general contractor guys finished trimming out the windows.  I also had them do one corner of the house, next to the deck, in the siding we'll be using on the addition -- just to see what it would look like.  We think it looks good!  You can see the old siding on the south, next to it.

The 2nd picture shows what I found when we got home on November 28, the day after thanksgiving.  You can see our bedroom window -- with eerie human-like silhouette cut in the tyvex -- in the distance, and the bathroom on the left.  The hole nearby is the stairwell.  (The bright white thing is the thermometer out our living room window -- I had to lighten the picture, as I took it near dusk.)  The third pic I took today (November 29).  It shows the west side of the addition (and the windows of my basement studio).  You're looking through the (as yet) non-existent wall of a new bedroom (maybe Kendall's) and into the master bath and out the master bedroom window beyond.  The 4th shot is of the basement, with brick-look concrete, looking out the north window.  Of course, there are neither windows nor actual wall so far, but soon -- maybe next week.

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