Front Landscaping

Today we had the front landscaping done. Here you can see the plants planted waiting to flower and grow leaves. When that happens it will look awesome.


Landscaping from a different angle.


This is what of the front of the house looked like just before the planting.

Kitchen

The kitchen is almost all done. The soapstone counter top is installed and the cabinets are in.

Greatroom - View from Above

I am trying something new...a video of our greatroom.

Puss 'n Boots

This is one of the Puss 'n Boots that we bought today for the front of our house. It is not made of the usual Concrete, we were told it was made of sandstone. I'm not actually sure of what it is made of but it looks much different than the normal Concrete.

We picked up two of these statues from a place in Saratoga Springs, NY called The Hidden Garden. They have a lot of cool things for the house and garden.


Here are the two boys on the front porch. We just love the way they look. And let me tell you they are very heavy!


A view from the road.

Upstairs is Started

The second floor, phase three, has been started. The garage still needs work but our carpenter was able to start framing the upstairs rooms.

This will be the master bedroom. The door on the right is the door into the bedroom and the one on the left will be going from the bedroom into the bathroom.


This is the stairs going down to the first floor. What we are going to do is make the stairway ceiling about eight feet high and make a four feet high storage area on top of that; the ceiling is twelve foot high upstairs.

Dirty Water

We just had this water filter added because we have been getting a lot of sand and small rocks in our water. This has been going on since we have been getting water from our new drilled well. I suppose it will stop eventually but for the time being, we will just have to filter our water. The thing I am trying to prevent are the faucets from wearing out.


This is what the filter looked like just after it was installed.


This is what it looks like two weeks later.

Car in Garage

After digging our cars out of the snow every storm, and there has been a lot, we finally were able to park our cars in the garage. Work on the garage is still continuing but at least the cars are out of the weather.

Our friends and family may have noticed that we have a new car. Our old Jetta TDI has been retired; we donated it to the Good News Garage after driving it for over 276,000 miles. Last time we were up in Vermont it died and we needed to get a ride home. After that,we decided it was time to let it go. The Good News Garage will either fix it, it was still running good, and give it to a person who needs a car or sell it for parts. I wanted to keep it until 300k miles, if we did not have a new car we would have fixed it.