Moving Right Along

It's been a full Sabbath, we're feeling a little tired and it's getting late.

I'm gonna try and crank this out lickety-split.

And after going back and reading last week's post, that's probably not such a great idea...

I think I need an editor.

Anyway,

Monday night Dean resolved an issue with the bump-out window in the garage.

He took the top half down, trimmed the cripples, reassembled and put it back up.

Tuesday night, with a tiny bit of help from me to hold sheeting, he got it completely sheathed.

Wednesday it snowed.

And snowed.

So, Wednesday night we sat at our little trailer table across form each other 

while we cracked and shelled the last of the walnuts from our walnut tree

and  watched Green Acres. 

Yeah. 

That's right. 

I said we watched Green Acres.
So?

Thursday night is always set aside for ward missionary visits.

Friday...

on Friday Tannon showed up and spent hours shoveling and scraping 

ALL the snow and ice 

off the sheeting on the roof!
Out of the goodness of his ginormous heart, he got it ready
to go for Saturday morning's work crew so they didn't have to spend precious time doing it.

To say that Tannon is awesome is an understatement.

Friday night he was back again helping Dean get the west facing garage gable 

sheathed and ready to hoist up onto the roof the next day.

Sometimes I refer to this son-in-law of ours as Dean's 'mini-me'.

Seriously, these two are so much alike.

Saturday (yesterday) was AWESOME.

Farrin and his guys came and worked for us again.
And, of course, Tannon didn't miss out on any of Saturday's action.

What a blessing!

They made some great progress.

Here are some pictures...

After working on getting the FINAL sheathing done on the roof,
they hoisted the south-west gable that goes over the garage bump out window into position.
I particularly appreciated Anthony's skill and knowledge base.
I explained to him exactly how I wanted the gables to be finished out,
he listened carefully, asked me several questions,
made certain he understood and, as a result, I am extremely happy with the results.

Then they moved on over to the west gable on the raised mid-section of the roof...

And then they started on the over-building for the west facing gables...

99.9 % of the sheathing is done, there's still over-build on the gables to complete
and one more barge rafter to put up.
We're hoping to get a roofer out this week (tall order) to get the roof papered.
We can't shingle just yet because there are plumbing vents that need to go through the roof.

Jennie, my plumbing fixture sales gal at Great Western Supply, called me this week.
She let me know that another couple had ordered the very same garden tub that
I have on our invoice, but haven't actually place our order yet.
After receiving it into the warehouse, the couple changed their minds.
Because GWS can't return items to their supplier without taking a hit,
she told me she was giving me first dibs on it and selling it to me for a nearly $300 savings!
I was thrilled.
I dropped in to the store to secure it with full payment and Jennie took me
out to the warehouse to look at it.
I nearly cried with joy.
Never has a bathtub looked so wonderful to me!
I don't think it was the nice savings that brought tears to my eyes.
No, it just the sight of a beautiful, big bathtub.
I've missed having one.

And lastly,
our windows come tomorrow!
That's exciting!
Because, as Shawn, my window man always says,
"The windows are the eyes of a home"
Yeah, whatever, Shawn. You're such a cheese ball.