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I'm not sure what spurred my current obsession with finishing, repairing, sorting, and putting away. Maybe it's been concern to fin...

Last fall, early snows kept us from graveling the driveway. We waded snow and mud until April, when it finally got dry enough to have this ...

The new house is all the things we hoped it would be--wonderfully warm, easily cleaned, with plenty of closets and cabinets--but we're ...

We're living in the new house now, still doing finish work, and still moving in, a little at a time. I don't have any interesting pr...

I've received a complaint from Pendleton County on lack of new house photo coverage. August was a busy month, but it turns out that newl...

I made three trips in three days to the big-box home improvement store in Lewisburg this week. I don't usually go to Lewisburg more tha...

I've painted the drywall with primer, and we've installed the ceramic tiles we'll use as a "hearth" for the wood stov...

The drywall is up now, and last week I painted it with primer. It has become hard to photograph progress now that all the walls are up and ...

The house siding has been complete for some time, but rain and other projects have kept us from staining the exterior. Inside, drywall is g...

I've been teaching bunches of classes, but there's been unblogged house progress. Here you can see siding, and the setting of the p...

The new house will require a new power line and pole, and last week the electric company's tree workers came to clear the path. Unfortu...

After all that rain, there was finally some house progress last week!

Work on the new house has started again! We got our hemlock siding, and other things we need to finish the exterior last week, and Friday, ...

It snowed twice last week, piling one snowfall on another, and we've had one night colder than any time last winter. Yesterday's ra...

The roof is on, and the house wrap, doors, and windows make it look like a solid structure. We will have to look at the home improvement st...

This is probably the last picture of the house as see-through structure. Now the roof tin will shut out the sky (especially the rain!), win...

Here's where we're stalled, with two thirds of the rafters up, roof tin stacked neatly to the side. We're waiting on more rafte...

The walls are up, both exterior and interior, and the ceiling beams are in place as well. It's easier now for me to visualize it as a ...

With the walls going up, we realized we needed to run out and buy a bathtub, since tub-shower combinations are too big to go through doors....

The walls are going up. It's beginning to look a little bit like a house!