The Dehners and the cows head home

We had a great day of work today! We got there pretty early, and it was a glorious day, sunny, about 80, a good pleasant wind and again, the slight hint of autumn in the air. It was wonderful!!! We got all the basement walls on the exterior up, and the top plates are on too. It's essentially squared up, and tomorrow we're having a friend up for the weekend from Boston, and she has offered to help swing the hammer. :-) Thanks Jen, you're awesome!

The walls need to be plumbed (am I spelling that right?) and we need to finalize the squaring and make double sure, and then it's onward we go. Next on our list is to build a wall inside the basement alongside the future root cellar, and then we will set the big 6 x 6 posts, and then it will be on to the roof of the basement. We hope to be done with this next week. Should be on target, unless we are rained out!

There's not much else to say tonight, we stayed late to get the basement walls up, and we are just delighted with the way it's looking. Pretty good looking for a couple of non-pros! We're going to head in for bed, and tomorrow we are picking up our friend in Bangor. The photo in this section is the Keene farm next door and slightly over from us. It's a fourth generation family farm. Very pretty place, and the cows are pleasant! The cows were hanging out happily, and there were four large turkeys in the front yard of the farmhouse. The turkeys are back to their rounds in the neighborhood, and the chicks they probably were laying low raising up are now half grown and cute as can be. Very funny little creatures. We had to drive by a big flock of them the other day on the way to the land, and got a stern gobbly reproval for our actions. Well, we probably deserved it. :-) Goodnight.