My wife and I went up Saturday about noon and spent two hours collecting debris and throwing it into the dumpster. (Great exercise, by the way.) I guess that I should have taken a before picture, because there was a lot of junk in front and back. By doing the cleanup ourselves, it speeds up the process, and reduces the need for our builder to find unskilled labor--which is no longer available in the Boise area.
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The snow capped mountains all around are really cool, and even the snow blowing off the roof was pretty cool. Those of you who live in, and grew up in snow country may not share this view, of course, but my wife and I grew up in Southern California, and there's still something very picturesque about views like these, especially since some of them are from windows in our house:
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Here's a view from the family room:
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Inside, many of the electrical outlets are installed:
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The empty holes are telephone and coax boxes.
Our electrician seems to have been interrupted while installing this outlet. It almost looks like one of those End Times movies where believers get raptured:
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The toilets are all in--and working--which makes it feasible to move Big Bertha up there one of these weekends, assuming that we get clear skies again. (It's a lousy picture--no lights yet meant a long exposure.)
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The doors are out in the garage, waiting to be painted:
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The carpet and padding for the bedrooms is also sitting out there:
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We need gutters for the roof--snow melt refreezes on the sidewalk, making for slippery and dangerous surfaces. It also looks like we may need to have the front of the property graded so that it slopes a bit to the south, instead of a little to the north--which is causing water to pool at the end of the driveway.
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