I have been watching this seasons The Ultimate Fighter and loving it. It's gotten the fire back in it this season although I still hate it when they let the losers stay around.. it confuses me. Of course that doesn't take that much, but still. They are doing lightweights this season and boy do those men have Napolean Syndrome!!
We set the bolts in the foundation yesterday to bolt the Hog Trough to. What is a Hog Trough you ask? Well it is the boards that you bolt to the block foundation to keep you from doing the Dorothy Dance in high winds. From what I understand we have to take the boards and drill holes, then you set that board on the foundation and onto the bolt.. you screw the nut on and then more boards get attached. I am looking forward to tomorrow, we get to start seeing the floor going down. Woot. I will take pictures before, during and after. I was going to take some today of what we did yesterday but it was raining all day. We also moved about 75 of the leftover blocks out of the way and filled in some of the holes in the subfoundation. A good days work overall. Just as we were getting done they showed up to deliver a load of wood. It was the wood for the floor and floor frame. And then today they delivered another load of wood for the framing. There will be many more deliveries, just how many I am not sure. Mom and Dad ordered the house patter for a 30x60 house from a local lumberyard which also happens to be friends of theirs so they gave them a great discount. The labor is of course.. sweat equity and the way I see it, OTJT for me. We have been working on our house plan for after they are built and settled in. We are going to just go ahead and build a new house and live in this one while we do it. We will use the moldings and doors and stuff we just put in here, but there is so much going wrong that to add on here would be simply stupid. Our foundation is rediculous and to fix it would be terribly hard to do while a house sits on it. So, we are going to start from scratch and build a new one. God help me! Bill's cousin is a great help and his uncles have said they would pitch in. If we get half the help his mom and dad have gotten it wont be so bad labor wise at all. We are going to just do it check by check, it may take awhile but it will be fit to what I want exactly.
Check out those Demonic Eyes!!
What? I swear I wasn't going to torment the Frogs or the Fish! I swear! What????
Hey Ma!!!! Come get this door out of my way, move it!!
Shhh, You don't see anything! *Love the lick catch"
She makes her getaway, this is her kitty door. Note that the little wiatch tore the plastic off the door so she could get out of it. Heffer!
And this is her on the other side. Yes, I know that my house looks like a trash dump out back, we were digging out the cellar that some idiot decided to fill in with dirt like a dumbass, so it looks a little crappy right now. Sad thing is, we have to fill it back in now since we aren't fixing this house. Blech!
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