June 28, 2015 Week 2 was a busy week at Maisto Mountain, and we are getting ready to enter Week 3! This past Monday (June 22), the ground had 5 inches of rain over the weekend, so the building crew had to take a day off just to allow the worksite dry out. The crew was able to get a full four days of work in from Tuesday-Friday on the site. What you see now in our pictures are the concrete forms going up for the walls of our home. We are expecting concrete to be poured for the basement walls this week, weather permitting. Seeing the forms in place is pretty exciting for us because we can see the shape of our home starting to take place! In addition the construction work, Brad arrived on Wednesday, along with my brother Keith and his family, at our Avon home. We had planned for weeks to pick up a rental truck to load items from our Avon barn to send to our barn in southern Indiana. We have been calling this the “barn to barn move” for weeks now. I woke up Thursday morning to rolling thunder and lightning, which made me very concerned for loading a 16-foot vehicle. Thankfully, however, the rain and storms subsided by the time we needed to get the truck. As we drove to get the rental truck, however, the company called and said that they might not be able to give us a rental truck because they were having problems with the truck we had rented. After some scrambling and calling around to other companies, we finally received a call from the original company that they had just replaced the truck battery, and the original truck was ready. This all happened in the span of about an hour, but it felt like half a day! Brad and I tentatively went to pick up the truck from the original company, but we could see that everything was working fine. We had the truck in place at our Avon barn for loading just in time for our teen crew (three guys) from church to arrive to help Brad, my brother Keith, and me load the truck. They were awesome help, and we finished loading the truck in about an hour and a half! A special thanks to my brother Keith, too, who really knows how to pack in the boxes from his former employment experience at FedEx. We counted at least 80 boxes on the truck plus other miscellaneous large items like furniture we plan to rehab, a scale, and lawn furniture! We unloaded the truck on Friday in southern Indiana. The unloading went much more quickly than the loading, and my dad helped Brad, Keith, and me. The concrete team was out working, and I was able to meet Perry Culberson, our lead concrete man. After we returned our rental truck, we were able to relax the rest of the weekend and celebrate family birthdays at my parents’ home. It feels good to have some of our stuff moved into the barn. Some people ask me how we can move some of our possessions this soon, but I challenge you to look around your home and garage and assess the items you use on a daily basis. It’s 20 percent, if that. This is called a “first world problem,” if you use hashtags in the Twitter or Instagram world. We didn’t move anything valuable or that a barn can damage. This early move just will make our packing/moving a little easier down the road. I’d say it also puts our little piece of Americana in some perspective as well, right? In addition, people we know also have begun asking us what our timeline is. The answer? We have no idea. This is a build in the middle of country. Ideally? December-March but we have a lot of work to do, and if you’ve been following this blog, you already know that both the contour of the land and the excessive rain we have had this summer have been obstacles so far. One friend who recently built a house told me at this weekend’s family birthday party that anyone who has built a house could tell me that even in a typically dry season, if you start to build a home, it’s Murphy’s Law that it will rain. He also said to never answer the timeline question until you start putting drywall in the home. I think I’ll be sticking with “I don’t know” for quite a while. However, concrete forms are exciting! We are celebrating every visible change and point of progress at this point! Maisto Mountain is “forming” up. | |
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