I just received word that there is now a plywood roof on our house!
Also, we’ve just received the first piece of mail in our new mailbox. It is, of course, junk mail.
New contact info for me & Jessi:
194 Berry Corner Rd.
Charlton, MA 01507–5247
Phone number is remaining the same (I love VoIP): 774-490-7314
“They put a house on top of our basement!” — Jessi, when seeing the latest pictures. (Thank you, Ben!)
UPDATE 5/18: As Ben says, even more pictures today! We’ve got a second floor now!
We’ve now got nice walls for the foundation, and the supporting steel beam is up.
And I’ve got a bunch of pictures, too!
Well, it may have seemed as though I’ve fallen off the face of the earth, but I haven’t quite done that yet. I’ve been very busy at work with the New York Stationery Show and with setting up everything for a wonderful partnership that eInvite (whom I indirectly work for) has with Costco. Costco currently links to us from their “Office supplies” section, but they should be linking to us from their home page later this week. It’s been very busy with some long days and weekends, but it’s exciting to see everything coming together.
After looking over Blogger a bit, I think I’m going to be blogging there instead of here. Posts from me from now on will be up at http://cooperjr.blogspot.com/, unless I change my mind later.
See my post there for some of the reasons why.
Latest news from my dad today is that it looks like they’ve just about finished improvements to our segment of Berry Corner Rd. so that the cement truck can come through and poor the footing for the foundation. It’s nice to finally see things progressing after the months of waiting for things.
In sad news, I’m sick today :(
Jessi and I got to see the work done on digging our foundation so far. There’s a lot done in just the couple days they’ve been working. They’re working on the drainage for the road, they’ve flattened out the hills, and they’ve dug a cellar hole. Hopefully, they’ll start pouring the cement for the footing for the foundation this week.
I took pictures!
Good news from my mom:
Some equipment was brought late this afternoon. Digging your foundation is expected to commence tomorrow.
More happiness!
I randomly checked my bank account online, and apparently a deposit of $13,674 was made to my checking account today. I called the bank, but they have yet to get back to me as to why.
(It looks like it was a disbursement from my construction loan, so it’s not really free money. It’s just… odd.)
After a couple years of waiting for people and governments, our house will actually get started soon! The bank put some money from the loan in our checking account today, so I wrote the builder the check for 10% of the cost so that he can get started! It should arrive on Saturday if the Post Office is efficient (which I don’t really expect, but is possible), which should mean that groundbreaking could start as early as next week!