Siding going up!

Rock work finished!!!

Rock on!

Clean up is all that's left to do of the rock work.
Fantastic work! :D

The blue flagstone, on the walkway & porch, came from Tennessee.
The rock caps, steps & rock for walls came from Indiana.

Those of us who have traveled down I-65 through Kentucky would have seen the
miles & miles of stone walls. We were told that they were "slave walls"
but didn't know the history behind them.

The history behind them...
When the Irish came to settle in Kentucky,
hundreds of yrs ago, the Irish taught their slaves how to build these walls.
Today's Kentucky owners of these Irish walls had some repairs that needed done
& no one who knew how to rebuild them. A few years ago Kentucky had 5 Irish men
flown over to teach American's the art of building these wonderful stone walls.
Below is a short sample of those mortar-less Irish rock walls.
I love 'em! :D

Monday 25 July 2011

Saturday 23 July 2011

22 June 2011

Current projects:
Flagstone on porch and down walkway.
Short Irish stone wall on front walkway.
Removed sidewalks on each side of house.
Installing 2 new side doors.

It's been awhile but we're still moving along. :D

They finally did it!

Google updated my house! :)
This shows the new addition in the back and the dormers.
It also shows the bricked backyard.

There's a lot going on over these past few days...

Front porch was built

And the roof came down!
Unfortunately some boards had to be replaced.
They also had to tear out the new 2 yr old roof. Long story. :(

Dog house or bump out built to house the gas fireplace in living room.

Dog house/bump out built and now they're starting to install
a window on both sides of where fireplace will be.

More roofing going on!
I feel so sorry for these guys. The temperatures have been hovering right around 98° to 100° F (36.6° -37.7° C). They started out with 5 workers on Tues. & by Thurs. morning they were down to 2 workers. The heat & humidity is unbearable. Unfortunately they didn't feel a bit sorry for me when they presented me with the invoice. Ouch!!!

Dog house/bump out for gas fireplace housing.

I haven't taken a picture yet...but one of the windows is installed and the other one
should get installed on Friday. That will end all 32 window installations.
Did I mention that I like windows? :)

It nearly killed us...

but the porch has been removed.