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Framing starts today. We've ben waiting on weather and subcontractors. In the interim I built a 12x10x8' chicken coop. Duplex coop designed to hold two flocks (one egg layers, one meat chickens). Stood the walls up yesterday. It is going to have a "western" facade (think Universal Studios...

Slab is poured and trusses are delivered.

The in-floor heating PEX is in place and we're pouring at 0530 tomorrow. Roof trusses are being delivered tomorrow at 0800. All of this is a "hurry up offense" to avoid the Trout Creek Hwy 200 Bridge closure. Tomorrow is the last working day before the bridge is closed. All the hard work is...

Yesterday I finished grading out the floor of the equipment shed enough to go ahead and start using it. I've got one empty bay (which the truck camper will occupy), so I think I did OK on the size. The depth is what I wanted so the pontoon boat is out of the weather. All in all I think it turned...

So I woke up the other night and realized I needed to avoid a potential problem. I am installing in-floor heat in the shop and apartment. I also plan on installing a (Bendpak?) lift. I realized that I need to make sure there is no in-floor heating tubes under the area we will drill into for...

The 50' x 50' garden is finished and my wife is planting. She's making great progress, about half planted. Should be done today. Got an update from the concrete finisher and rebar goes in tomorrow and we pour Friday.

The weather is clearing up after many days of heavy rain and we now expect to pour Thursday or Friday. Things are going to start moving again.

Today we cut the garden posts to 8' and put the top rails on the garden.

Yesterday we dug in the plumbing stub outs in the slab and recompacted. It was awesome to bring this phase of the build to a close. I was very happy to return the jumping jack. I rolled my ankle two weeks ago and have been working on it in any event. The jumping jack didn't make it any better...

Nice weather starts in Mid April and lasts until September usually with an indian summer in November. It's best to figure boating season (for fishermen) is Late April through September. For bikini boaters is is Memorial day through Labor day. Western Montana is mild as compared to the High Line...

We had large berms around the foundation, which were the dirt we excavated for the footings and stem alls. These had been flattened so the concrete trucks could get in. We needed to remove them so that we can get the pump truck in, and return the area around the foundation to grade so the...

Yesterday we finished compacting the foundation. Monday we install the sewer line and then we're ready to pour as soon as the weather allows!

I know; they are never large enough!

I saw one last night on the Paladin equipment site. It attached to an excavator. But the budget is straining so there is no more equipment in the near future :-( SWMBO is getting nice windows and we have to save some money to purchase trees and cows.

Well the last few days we've been backfilling, compacting and measuring the to get up to grade. Not very exciting. I have spent a lot of time on a"jumping jack". It's a 200 pound gas powered **** kicking machine. Literally. Running that thing over and over is about as much fun as a fist fight...

Yesterday and today we're working on fence posts for SWMBO's 50x50 garden.

Today we backfilled the foundation for the "Shopiminium" on the outside. Next week we'll backfill and compact the interior in prep for the slab pour.

We got all the dirt out of the shop and the apron in front and compacted it with a roller.

We're still waiting for the main Shop/Apartment (aka Shopiminium) stem walls we poured Monday to cure. So today we dug out 4 inches of top soil inside the Equipment Shed and hauled it over to our (now) giant topsoil pile. Tomorrow we will put road base and then 3/4 minus in the equipment shed...

Thanks!. On the metal portion of the building (which is the three walls 59x41 that are the "shop" (as opposed to the apartment) I'm going to cover the foam on the outside with a drip cap that fits under the vertical panel and over the foam and then tuck a short (12") piece of metal wainscot...