Rough Framing: Day 4 – Raise The Roof

My mom (carrying a cooler of beer, bless her heart) is acting as Vana for this photo set…

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I’m starting to see the house looking like the final product. The roofline adds a lot.

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Still agonizing over the color for the siding, but I’ve got 40 hours in a pickup truck to look forward to in the near future, so there’s a little time left for making a decision.

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I continue to be exceedingly impressed with the framing crew. It could just be that I’m used to things moving at DIY-and-we-also-have-full-time-jobs pace (this is the pace that left my bathroom without trim for four years) and that this is actually normal for a 4 man experienced crew.

At any rate, it’s left time for me to ponder the fact that we have a little weed issue in the clover field…

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Which we might as well just learn to accept.

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There are worse things to look at after all. Like…

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Um…

MysteryMan?

Is that the tail of a rabbit DETACHED FROM ITS FURRY LITTLE BODY?!

Holy shit. How does that even happen? You know, I don’t even want to know the answer to that question. I am so not cut out for this country stuff.

7 Responses

  1. This post was leaving me feeling all warm and fuzzy and craving hazy summer days… until that last photo. Now I am traumatized. Poor bunny!!

  2. I know, right?! Its so disturbing (and weird… just right in the middle of the yard. no blood, no other fur. no sign of a tail-less rabbit) that I had to traumatize everyone.

    That is something you definitely DON’T see in the city!

  3. OK, it worked! I’ll go back to yearning for a beach cottage instead of a cottage in the coutry. And my inner 4-year old self is saying EWWWWWWWWWWWW!

  6. Wow it’s moving right along!! I don’t even want to think about the bunny. That sure is a lot of dandelions! My kids would love to blow those seeds all around!

  7. My two cents on color – I think the dark blue in the drawing is beautiful!

    And sad for the bunny….perhaps he “dropped” it there and hopped away to grow a new one…

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