Since the weather has been so cold and then holidays have kept us running around, we have not gotten a whole lot done. We were able to hire someone to haul in dirt around the foundation of the house, dig a hole for the septic tank, and double the size of our pond. That cost a bit more than we had planned but the pond doesn't really count towards the cost of building the house in my book, it was just an extra that we did because the equipment was here. The dirt work around the house cost us $1400.
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| The pond is bigger now, not filled with water in all of it but the girls have been ice skating a ton! |
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| I just added this because I thought it was kind of pretty. |
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| This is what the back of the house has looked like for the last month. Chris was able to get some of the rafters on the back up and covered but not all of them before it snowed. |
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| Just another view and the rafters are almost all the way across. Sub-zero weather and snow stopped us though. |
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| This was some of the dirt that was moved. Dirt now covers the storm shelter. |
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| Dirt was also moved up around the entire foundation. A total of 13 dump trucks full were moved up around the house and we will probably need more. |
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| This past weekend the weather was nice and Chris was able to get the rest of the rafters up. Now if we can get them covered this weekend we will be back to being able to work on it on the inside. I do not think the roof will get on until Spring now ,but if we can keep the snow and rain out that is a huge help. |
