Woo hoo! & Cauley of the Day

Woo hoo! The house is going up! The roof trusses are up and the dormers are on the way! We just got the doors and windows in (with two bay windows . . . woo hoo again!).

And, in honor of the guys working so hard on the house: Cauley of the Day . . .

Those boys are skippin' like water on a hot skillet.

The House!

And so it begins . . . But first, Cauley of the Day (In honor of the drought-breaking rain) It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.

the trucks arrive, and the logs are here!

the guys are doing this all by hand . . . no cranes. And of course, we're in the middle of a drought and our first day of building and it rains . . .

Cauley of the Day and We're Finally Building!

The Cauley of the Day, in honor of the house lumber finally arriving, is "Are we ready? Does a cat have climbin' gear?"

We're going as green as we can, from downsizing (we went half the square footage than we started with) and hand-applied stain concrete foundation to using standing dead timber for the outer walls and reclaimed lumber inside (from R's Fredericksburg family homestead).

Notice the cat butt prints in the stain . . .