No, the roof isn't done yet........

It rained a lot this week.  Seems like a good time for a break.

OK. You know Curtis.  He doesn't take breaks. 

So, just a change in focus for a minute.  In between storms, he did finish the roof on everything but the garage and the two add-ons in the back.  There are two separate pitches on the roof here, which is just beggin' for trouble.  Add to that a little girl who wants a window-less room upstairs to be her bedroom.  

To proceed, Curtis needs a building permit. He went in to the Cache County Building and Development office with a nice set of drawings on Tuesday, but the dude wanted them drawn larger. So, Curtis spent most of the night redoing them, and we went back .... now we are just waiting on the official OK. 

In the meantime.......

Curtis went to work inside...... in the dungeon, haha.  I don't like it down there much. Creepy.  And I can only imagine how many spiders are down there.

Before: this room looked so small when it was full of stuff.

The creepy stairs going down into the creepy dungeon.  Did I mention I don't like going down there?

Well, OK... this is kinda cool...... I have been told this is where the old coal chute was.

There is a cellar/partial basement in our house, with one larger room and one bitty room, where the furnace/boiler/water heater go.  Well, now that the old furnace and  water heater are gone, that bitty room is a lot bigger..... 9' x 4' . 

Curtis had to take everything out and upstairs in pieces.

All  of this out of the dungeon.

Then, he dug out the dirt floor ..... about five inches of dirt, or 100 5-gallon buckets up the stairs and out the window to the wheelbarrow. Who counts this stuff?????  Yeah, Curtis does.   Oh ..... and the giant boulder  that had been pulled from the cellar wall to put pipe where it needed to be....  I was waiting for Curtis to tell me that he ate his spinach and hauled it up the stairs by himself.  I was impressed when he said he didn't. That boulder is now buried in that dirt floor,

Curtis hauled a bunch of square pavers down into the dungeon, so the bitty room has a nice concrete floor now. It is still creepy in there .

the smaller part of the dungeon after Curtis got done with it.

The cluster of pipes that will heat my home.

In the upper-righthand corner of this photo, you can see a portion of the hole that the boulder came from.  Curtis said that boulder was at least two feet in boulder. 

We went  up to the house together today.  My house is all but done and on the market now, so I can go to Hyrum more often.   We didn't do much.... just cleaned up his mess in the yard.   Shingles, shakes, nails everywhere.  He filled in one flower bed for me so I could get my irises in the ground.  It isn't perfect yet, because let's face it... he isn't done making a mess. But it does look like a house again, instead of a demolition site. 

Curtis should have his building permit tomorrow, so he should be back on the roof in a day or two.