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The rain can stop any day now. Brad and I have read that this has been one of the wettest Junes on record in a while, and of course, it’s the year we are building a house. Growing up southern Indiana, I typically remember that the Fourth of July is one of the most blazing hot and humid holidays that exists, and to coincide with the holiday, grass mowing usually begins to taper off due to the dryness. That certainly isn’t the case this year. The weather was perfect, and the grass is greener than I’ve ever seen it. Word on the street at the local hardware store was that southwestern Indiana has had so much rain that farmers are starting to complain. They say if too much more precipitation is accumulated, some of the crops actually will be ruined.
However, with all that said, Brad and I really cannot complain. Despite the deluge of rain, our concrete and building crew makes use of every dry moment, and we are making fair progress in the wet and muddy conditions. This Monday (June 29), our basement walls were poured! With a break in the weather, concrete trucks from Newburgh made it up our road, and in a long day’s work, our walls were completed.
For Brad and me, it is really cool to see the shape of our home taking place. We drove to the property on Friday to see it together. We walked down into the basement area and stood there with the walls around us. It feels bigger than I thought it would, and it’s fun to think about the home starting to go up. We were supposed to have the basement plumbing roughed in on Thursday, but rain did delay that project. So we hope for the plumbing to be roughed in this week and the basement’s concrete floor to be poured soon afterward. We will see what the weather brings this week.
In other news, Brad’s first truck “deal” with the Kentucky Baptist preacher fell through, so he and my brother, Eric, who is quite knowledgeable about vehicles, have been looking around. Brad finally bought a new-to-him four-wheel drive truck at Expressway Dodge in Evansville on Friday evening. It is a 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 extended cab with a sunroof, and it’s a good-looking vehicle for being eight years old. Brad thinks the electric blue color should contrast well with his red barn. I personally am just happy that we now own a four-wheel drive vehicle for rainy, snowy, and icy days to have better traction up the gravel road. I personally never plan to drive it because I have never driven anything four-wheel drive or much larger than a sedan, but time will tell if I need to learn. The truck also will be nice for hauling some items from Avon to Grandview and for our future “trash service,” too, since all of you who currently live in the country know that you haul your own trash to the landfill.
We spent the rest of our weekend celebrating Independence Day with family, and I brought home some beautiful garden produce that my family and their neighbors already have coming up – cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, grape tomatoes, and the family favorite – blackberries. (We have to figure out how to transplant a blackberry bush or two to Maisto Mountain.) It will be fine eating this week while we await more progress on Maisto Mountain!
However, with all that said, Brad and I really cannot complain. Despite the deluge of rain, our concrete and building crew makes use of every dry moment, and we are making fair progress in the wet and muddy conditions. This Monday (June 29), our basement walls were poured! With a break in the weather, concrete trucks from Newburgh made it up our road, and in a long day’s work, our walls were completed.
For Brad and me, it is really cool to see the shape of our home taking place. We drove to the property on Friday to see it together. We walked down into the basement area and stood there with the walls around us. It feels bigger than I thought it would, and it’s fun to think about the home starting to go up. We were supposed to have the basement plumbing roughed in on Thursday, but rain did delay that project. So we hope for the plumbing to be roughed in this week and the basement’s concrete floor to be poured soon afterward. We will see what the weather brings this week.
In other news, Brad’s first truck “deal” with the Kentucky Baptist preacher fell through, so he and my brother, Eric, who is quite knowledgeable about vehicles, have been looking around. Brad finally bought a new-to-him four-wheel drive truck at Expressway Dodge in Evansville on Friday evening. It is a 2007 Dodge Ram 1500 extended cab with a sunroof, and it’s a good-looking vehicle for being eight years old. Brad thinks the electric blue color should contrast well with his red barn. I personally am just happy that we now own a four-wheel drive vehicle for rainy, snowy, and icy days to have better traction up the gravel road. I personally never plan to drive it because I have never driven anything four-wheel drive or much larger than a sedan, but time will tell if I need to learn. The truck also will be nice for hauling some items from Avon to Grandview and for our future “trash service,” too, since all of you who currently live in the country know that you haul your own trash to the landfill.
We spent the rest of our weekend celebrating Independence Day with family, and I brought home some beautiful garden produce that my family and their neighbors already have coming up – cabbage, zucchini, yellow squash, grape tomatoes, and the family favorite – blackberries. (We have to figure out how to transplant a blackberry bush or two to Maisto Mountain.) It will be fine eating this week while we await more progress on Maisto Mountain!