Progress seems slow now but the oak floors are down, the trim is being filled, sanded, lacquered, sanded again, etc.  They will paint soon.  The site built cabinets are build.  There is a mountain of drawers in the garage waiting to be painted.

Yearend will pass without completion.  The builder now says mid-February or March 1st. Floors get finished Christmas week.  Cabinets go in the first week of January.  We still need a driveway.

They built the porch closet and did a really nice job.  Builders work in mysterious ways or at least ours does.  Who can say why the closet didn't go up with the walls but when they fix stuff, they do it right.

 

 

The retaining walls just need the cap now.

 

 

The Bluestone has been delivered and will go down soon.

 

 

The bathroom tile will also go down [up?] soon.

 

 

Meanwhile we still have 20 or 30 years of our 50+ year collection of stuff to get rid of.  Then there's a house to sell.

 

 

Custom cabinets almost done. 

 

The new dining room table.

 

Interior trim continues and site built cabinets started.  Oak floors going down.

 

 

And plywood walls in the garage.

 

 

 

Things are happening fast now or so it seems.  The doors were hung;  trim going up;  oak floor delivered;  brick planter and porch stairs installed;  garage floor and front porch floors poured;  rough grading complete;  railing sample completed.  Plus it’s last chance for paint colors, tile, shutters and all sorts of things.

 

 

Here's two shots that will astonish locals.

Arcadia Lakes Drive

 

Two Notch and I20

The drywall and mudding are done, the house is painted outside and the metal roof is on the dormer.

 

Here's a distraction - major flooding.  We have crumpled streets and destroyed dams in our area. 

Our Spring Valley upper lake has overflowed through a neighbor's yard, across the street and through my next door neighbor's yard and into our lake.  This is lucky because it likely saved our dam.  The two dams on my lake are fine so far but the lake is at least 3 feet above normal.

This is my neighbor's driveway and the drainage ditch that runs between our lots from the street down to our lake.  For 30 years, in heavy rains we get maybe six inches of water in this ditch which has scoured to 3 feet deep over the decades,  It's full now and then some.  You would not believe the speed either.

 

 

 

 

This is our yard, if you look closely you can see a brown line.  That's the top of our sea wall that has 12 to 24" of freeboard normally.  Hope the boat doesn't float away.

Some are calling it a 200 year storm.