And the build goes on...

As you can imagine, the building process feels like it's gone on forever! But I guess that is what we should expect when it gets blown away just as it's finished. We broke ground for the house on July 5, 2007. Never once in our wildest dreams did we consider that we would "still" be building over a year later! We are anticipating a "move in" date of November 2008! Guess we don't have to worry too much since we don't have much left to move in! :-( Good news is that most of our furniture (we think) made it through the tornado! It actually was wisked away so fast we really have no idea! Don and I heard just recently that the first few days after the tornado we kind of were zombies...I can believe it!

The outside of the house is just about done. The driveway and the rest of the sidewalks have to be poured, but now our septic is complete and once the house is "finished", it's official, we can move in completely! Inside is still a work in progress. The walls have been sheetrocked and today the texturing of the walls was completed. Trim starts next, with cabinets to be re-installed somewhere in between. After that caulking and painting! It seems like it should go faster the second time, but it doesn't! Of the entire house, we were able to save one complete bathroom! Guess that would be a great place to go in the event of another tornado, but we now have a door on our safe room, so that's where we would go! We never felt the least bit threatened down there and were pretty clueless what was happening upstairs!

As with everything, there seems to be a silver lining...with us, it's the view! We now have an awesome view of the lake! Too bad the water level has gone down to a "normal" level! We loved it when it was so high, but that's o.k. we will still enjoy our view! :-) BTW there is plywood covering the deck to try to protect it...from everything!