The night before we left for Africa I was at the house til midnight or better running all of the in-wall/ceiling speaker and hdmi wires. The walls would (hopefully) be insulated and drywalled by the time we got back, so it was now or never.
When you spend all morning gathering and buying the supplies to lay your septic field, get to your house, and someone has already laid a septic field there. Without you asking (or wanting) them to. One of the more interesting moments of this build.
Dana finishing up some backfilling.
Milly with the chainsaw face shield.
Our first official dinner guests, the Hosegoods, come out for a wiener roast.
The septic field is dug while I (Nik) try not to fall out of the big hole in the wall and close it in.
Dana finishes off a row of deck boards on the back deck.
Laying the deck boards down at all hours.
These two sisters were far too big for our little machine to move, so they became one with the footings by drilling and epoxying rebar into them.
Insulation and vapour barrier are installed by the great guys at Teen Challenge while we were over in Africa. Mom and Dad F. supervise and work on plumbing in the meantime.
