Today Todd built plywood walls to shore up the footers that will get poured as soon as we have them inspected (can't do it tomorrow 'cos it's Thomas Jefferson's birthday and the County is closed!). There's a challenge looming where the end of the footer fits on top of the future wall of the cistern. The footer gets poured first so it has to be supported but there is no wall below it. Hmmm...
The other picture is just a view of the "house" from the bottom drive. You can see that we took down the 3 big oaks that were really close to the house so that we'll get more light, won't have thirsty trees next to our cistern, and we can harvest solar power from the south. Also less mess in the fall!
I'll post the master plan for the remodel soon--I guess it would make more sense if readers had a sense of our goals and issues. I spent the weekend emptying the old living area of the house. We've moved Miles' room, the kitchen and bathroom upstairs, the living room is now in the computer room and our closet is in our bedroom. I've got one more salvation army run to make, but it's quite cozy and not too cluttered.
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