Unintended Blogging Delay

It's been a very long time since I last wrote here.   Like our friends at Cottonwood Meadow, (http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/), (check out their home building blog!), time really got away from me.  Between working on our place and working on things to pay for our place, I just didn't seem to find time to write.  I'll try to catch things up.

At the last writing, the septic was installed and we had decided to live in the "apartment" part of the shop until we build a proper house.  The framing was finished and the plumbing rough-in, electric rough-in and insulation was next.  That all went fine, just slow, being fit in between building horse jumps. I contracted to have the drywall hung and finished.  I knew I was capable of doing it myself, but, also knew it would take me 2 weeks and the subs a few days.

The day before the guys were scheduled to hang the drywall, we had a lot of rain.  And good thing.  Water was pouring into the walls from the windows.  When they were installed, I was concerned with the way the builder flashed them, but figured he knew what he was doing.; wrong!  I spent the rest of the day digging out the foam insulation and sealing the cavities in the siding corrugation and caulking the hell out of the J channels around all the windows.  It seems to have worked.  Really glad I found out before the walls were closed in.

I left the window trim out until later.  I knew I could do it without a major disruption of living in the space and we needed to move into our new (somewhat temporary) home as soon as possible.

At the same time as all the house work, I had a contract to build several horse jumps for Fox River Valley Pony Club.  The first official jump built in the new shop was done in March.