Aw, well, you can't really tell, but the water was coursing down the street in a thick, torrent driven sheet! It was coming down so hard that you couldn't see and it was hard to clear the windshield! So we went on home (exciting ride, not being able to see very well!) and made a green curry with lots of local veggies. Penny is feeling lonesome and we feel a bit bad leaving her by herself all day especially so soon after the loss of her good friend. It's a great feeling to feel that we've got a wall up! The beginning of any project is always the most cumbersome and slow going, as you figure out what you are doing and how you want to approach it all, so it's nice to have the first hurdle taken care of. Wood is beautiful here! The young man who did our site work (highly recommended if you are having work done in mid coast Maine, his company is
www.davisdirtworks.com) is, besides someone with a great work ethic and great speed, a fellow with a lot of family members in various fields of building and other things. Anyway, we have been planning on using lally columns in the basement to carry the weight of the upper floors, the main drawback of them being their extreme ugliness. Derek recommended using big 6x6 beams, which we had wanted to do, but thought would be prohibitive cost wise, but we got four GORGEOUS eight foot hemlock beams, rough cut (meaning they really are 6x6)
for $12.25 each! They are truly beautiful, and when we've got time on our hands, over the winter maybe, we can sand them back and polish them up, which apparently yields a simply stunning wood surface. So we are quite pleased about them, and they were delivered today! Tomorrow it's supposed to be clear again (it is TRUE that weather can turn on a dime here!!) and we hope to finish the other two four foot walls of the basement. We know it's just a small wall to have finished, and it's the easiest wall, as it needed to headers for windows, but it's great to have the first wall standing, and to have gotten it done before the monster rains came just made it feel that much better!
All for now. Thanks for reading!
for $12.25 each! They are truly beautiful, and when we've got time on our hands, over the winter maybe, we can sand them back and polish them up, which apparently yields a simply stunning wood surface. So we are quite pleased about them, and they were delivered today! Tomorrow it's supposed to be clear again (it is TRUE that weather can turn on a dime here!!) and we hope to finish the other two four foot walls of the basement. We know it's just a small wall to have finished, and it's the easiest wall, as it needed to headers for windows, but it's great to have the first wall standing, and to have gotten it done before the monster rains came just made it feel that much better!
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