Snow in October!

Saturday it started snowing and continued through the night. Snow is not unusual in New York. The problem was that it came before the fall leaves had a chance to fall off the trees. So the snow stuck to the leaves and many branches and trees came down in the road and sometimes across power lines. We finally got power this evening (Monday) to the apartment where we are living while our house is being worked on but we still don't have power at the house. This first picture is to show that the sheetrockers/tapers are almost done. The others are of snow and or trees. The final shot is the apartment where we are living.

Moving forward

Things are moving along on our house. There has been a lot of work done inside. The plumbers, electricians & HVAC guys have all done their "rough in" and the stairs were put in this week. As soon as the sideing is done we'll do the insulation then be ready for sheetrock. But this week there have been some dramatic changes to the outside of the house as well. Here are before and after pictures and other miscellaneous pics.






Dedie prepainted the trim boards in the kitchen/great room area of the house.


Front door and new stairway (covered with cardboard to protect it).


Jonathan Castro, who's staying with us for a few weeks, helped Dedie hang the tile on the front of our fireplace. The mantle will be added later. It looks great!


A new rock retaining wall. The rocks were all along the fence line in the back of our property (we have a "never ending" supply). The labor was provided by a couple of men who did a great job.


A 90 foot long, 18 inch deep ditch Jonathan dug to run electrical conduit up to the shed. This is hard digging. Lot's of rocks. Way to go Jonathan!


A couple of weeks ago we split all this wood. The pile we split and stacked is two logs (36") deep, 6 ft high and 25 ft long. A "cord estimator" on the internet estimated 2.9 cord. The whole logs to the left are some we got recently that I'll split later.