Lighthouses and more

Only have a minute now, but will be back later..... The house is started!!! The foundation is poured and the stem wall should be going up next week. This weekend we will be out of the Jacksonville place and entire in the St Augustine location.

posted by Lighthouses @ 9:09 AM 0 comments

More progress has been made. The shop has the electric roughed in, a/c duct work finished and the plumber is scheduled for his work.

Tuesday and Wednesday this week we had all six of the citrus trees transplanted from Jax to St. Augustine. All that is left in Jacksonville are very deep and big holes (see the picture) where they once flourished. We have our fingers crossed that all will survive to continue to produce wonderful fruit for us to enjoy.

Last Saturday afternoon we took the furbabies down for their first visit now that the fence is up. They spent a lot of time exploring outside... There are many new scents to identify! When we brought them inside, they checked out each of the rooms. Because most of our belongings have been relocated, most everything was familiar to them & we didn't have any trouble.

We should be starting on the house within the next few days!!! I'll keep you posted on that when it happens....

posted by Lighthouses @ 6:32 PM 0 comments

Progress--progress on the Shop at least. The walls are up, roof (plywood & tarpaper) on, and the framers are almost finished with the interior walls for the 2 office/storage rooms and bathroom. We are going to have a metal roof on it. The plumber and electrician should be able to start later this week. DH is ordering the windows, doors, and 2 garage doors soon too. We are going through the 'learning curve' on the non-critical building so when we start the house there shouldn't be any major issues. The fence man set the posts today and the wire should be up tomorrow. After that we can take the dogs for a visit so they can see/smell/enjoy the new place before they are moved permanently.

We have until the end of July to move from the current place and it will be a tight timeline finishing it. We have the citrus trees, my roses to move and anything else that we want to take since the developer is only going to bulldoze everything down. Now that I figured out how to include pictures you can seen the changes.

posted by Lighthouses @ 7:56 PM 1 comments