Moving Along

Hi All,
I'm trying to do better about posting a bit more often. This time there is a good bit of progress in a short timeframe. Two things before I get to the house.

There is a private road that runs along the eastern boundary of our property. Since we bought the property we have been trying to get the county to take it over and maintain it. There are five landowners that had to agree to deed some right of way to the county in order to make it happen. Between getting a survey and getting all the effected landowners to have documents signed and notarized it has taken every bit of six months to get this done. Working with the county has been by far the easiest part of the ordeal. On Tuesday, June 5th, Susan and I attended the Rusk County Commissioners Court and saw all our work come to fruition. Welcome to County Road (CR) 1114 D! Once the East Texas 911 office gives us a street number we'll be official and be able to change our address to our final one.

On the way to Commissioners Court we got some much needed rain. What we didn't need was to be quite so close to a lightening strike, about 100 feet by my estimation, Wow! It shook us both up a bit. I'd be very happy to never again be close enough to see the orange ball of flame that is at the end of those white streaks in the sky.

On to the house. All the siding is up and it's 90% painted. The HVAC ducts are all in. This was by far the worst job of any Susan and I have done on the house. The spray foam insulation is in and where there is going to be drywall, it has been hung. So here are the pictures...

Clapboard siding for the back side gable end. From left to right; Grady, Brian, Amber (Scott's daughter) and Scott.

Spraying Kilz as the first layer

Finished with the Kilz

After the Kilz, brown paint. Of course it has a much fancier name than "brown".

The final coat and we're done, I told you we weren't going to leave it yellow.

Spray foan insulation is in. The roof part isn't finished in this picture.

The drywall is up. This is the master closet.

That's all for now. Take care!
Brian