Leaving City Life Behind

Now approaching four weeks since I last posted an update on Sunday 26th November, Dwight Hulbert has continued to work with meticulous care on the job of siding and fitting associated trim and fascia, while also taking a week off for his own family annual holiday in Mexico. About 90% done, the result since my last post update is as you see in the next few photos below. The front prow wall, working round all those windows, the central post and many odd and varying angles, was particularly demanding and finicky for him, but he has produced a very neat result. Below you see the rear loft gable wall completed … … and next the side wall of the garage. I will be profiling the land below the black metal strip once the Spring arrives and the ground thaws. The area you can see exposed below the fir timber fascia board on the back wall will also be done in stone by another contractor in the Spring along with the stone work on my front door and garage door wall. I myself flew ...

Well, it is now five weeks since my last post and if any phrase springs to mind about recent frustrations in terms of house building in general, the inevitable build-up of delays, and the exacerbating effect of an early onset of winter on those same delays, it is Winston Churchill’s "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." My tears were nearly shed last Sunday, when after many hours of writing a post and then uploading a number of photographs via an abysmally slow internet system, I then tried to sort out a formatting alignment issue, at which stage the whole draft completely disappeared into the ether. I had a totally blank document, and nothing I did for the next hour could retrieve it. A response next day to my email to the blogger site explained that unless I had actually published the post, there is no means of recovery. Hence, with work on site keeping me rather busy, my rewrite had to wait another week, and from now on, as per the advice of two f...