WAH-HOOOOO! Walls are goin' up.

Here we go with this past week's day by day progress here at
Our Retro Bungalow...

Monday:

I ordered our front and back doors.
I was glad to have that decision done and behind me.
I had to order the front door that soon because it'll take
about a month to get it since it's a special order.
My door guy, Tim at BMC, has been so good to me.
I found an image of a door online that had absolutely no leads as to what
company makes it or where to get it.
Tim searched and searched and found it for me.
I love it, but had some anxiety over the fact that it'll be west-facing and it's solid wood,
as opposed to fiber-glass.
Dean told me that if that's the door I wanted, stop worrying and order it already.
He'll probably be cussin' me when we end up sanding and painting it every few years.
Betcha.
*****
Dean got a text from our flat-work guy saying he'd be able to do our garage floor on Wednesday.
We were not expecting him for another week or two.
When he got home from work, he immediately turned on the hose
and began saturating the soil in the garage.
*****
While the water ran, he stripped the footing forms for the piers
and put some more mid-point blocking in the load-bearing basement wall.
*****

Ry and Abigail worked on removing the concrete patio around that last basement window
that needed a new window well installed.
With Dad's help, they got the well installed, bolted and back-filled.
*****
Before going inside and cleaning up for the night, Dean noticed some significant settling
in the garage; as much as eight inches. this, of course, was disconcerting.
*****
I was pretty much useless because I'd hurt my back earlier that afternoon.
It wasn't even anything spectacular that has caused me
constant lower back pain for a week now;
I was just lying on Jo-Tan's front room floor with Madimo.
Weird.

Tuesday:

Dean called first thing in the morning and ordered a truck-full of rock for the garage floor
and canceled the concrete pour and flat-work.
The rock was delivered just a couple of hours later.
The flat-work guy was not happy. 
We felt bad about cancelling his work, but what were we supposed to do?
We weren't willing to take any chances with settling after our garage floor was poured.
*****
Dean got the first stair stringer for the basement stairs measured, cut and installed.
He got close to finishing the mid-point blocking in the basement
 and moved a lot of that delivered rock onto the garage floor area.
Dave got the first few wall plates down.
Shawn, our window guy, came out and measured for the basement windows.

Wednesday:

Dean is sick.
He called in to work saying he'd wouldn't be there and then rolled over and slept for three more hours.
If this man sleeps in that long, he's pretty bad off.

I left for classes and when I returned home several hours later Dean and Brother Dave Stroud
were working on the house together. Brother Stroud said he had the day off
and decided to come join in the fun.
Have I mentioned what wonderful neighbors and ward members we have?
Seriously, they're awesome.
The final piece of OSB and rim joist was put down to complete the upstairs floor,

the forms for the piers were built,

the basement stairs were built,
the rest of the window well bottoms were filled with rock.

Thursday:

Dean is still sick. I'm pretty sure it's a flu.
It takes a lot to slow him down and he's really slowed down.
He did, however, finish back-filling the garage with wheelbarrows-full of rock
to bring the level back up to grade.
Dave got more walls built (not up, just put together).

Dean built a little set of temporary stairs up to where the back door will be
to make it easier to get up and into the house.
With the back problems I've had this week, it was really hard to get up there
(and especially to get back down)
to see all the progress.
I don't want to miss any of it.

Friday:

Dean is sill pretty sick.
He'd brought his work computer home Thursday night and worked from home
all morning and into the early afternoon.
Things still got done on the Bungalow, though.

Dean and Dave raised the South wall.
Dean got all the blocking done in the basement, worked on the framing for the utility room
and framed out the door for the under the stairs storage space.

Satruday:
More framing on Saturday. Dean, Dave, Michael (Dave's son) and Tannon.
THIS is the kind of progress that gets us EXCITED!
Jossi joined in and helped the men raise the east wall...

Like I said...
WAH-HOOOOO!