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Progress!

Our house is really starting to take shape. This week they put the frame up! It has been really interesting to see how they build things here. A crane came two days and lifted the beams up and the carpenters put them in place with big wooden mallets. Mostly they bolt the beams together. The wood is all precut at a factory and then numbered. The carpenters just have to put the "puzzle" together. I am thankful that it is all up and that they are safe--they climbed around on that frame like monkeys!

Catching up from before--The final basement concrete has been poured.
The second time was over the round tubes. Then they built some rebar walls that will support the walls in the house. Next, they poured the walls. It seems that any time they went to pour concrete, we got rain. One day it looked like our house's crawlspace was going to turn into a swimming pool! They had to pump it out several times.

The pictures will hopefully go in order--I should have posted a long time ago!

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The concrete went in by this crane type truck.
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This is our yard--up until all the junk on the right side. We will have some parking, and hopefully some garden too.
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They had to bring a bigger crane to do the second day--I could see it as I walked from our house to there!
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Yesterday they put up the flat pieces on the roof--it brought back memories of when a good friend and I went on the work team down in Florida--nail guns and all! If I wasn't pregnant, I would be tempted to go up there and show them myself! They also put up these guards around the house. These will be up for the duration, I believe. Because the other houses are so close, this protects the other houses.
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