Week: 20 Roof Baby!

The roof materials was finally delivered on 1/14/2010. Work promptly began and progress was smooth thanks to some badly needed pleasant weather. It was in the 40's, pretty good for January weather. Weather proofing materials EPDM membrane was all laid on Saturday. Very lucky since Sunday had some rain in the forecast.
Some bad news: Matt broke his ankle and needs some pins and a cast. Sounds very serious and we all hope for a smooth recovery. Adam has been putting in extra hours and got some of their child hood friends to help while Matt is out.
Other bad news: Due to the issue with the rundown on the slope, we decided to delay the swimming pool and jacuzzi to years down the line. We may just put in a above ground hot tub instead for now and disguise it somehow since we hate the look of the regular hot tubs. Found a good idea in Dwell, we'll see how it works out. The DEC is now fully involved and it seems to be an issue with our entire sub division, not just our lot.

Weeks 15, 16, 17, 18, 19: Cold Cold Weather

Cold weather and the holiday season has slowed things quite a bit.
Week 16 : Initial stages of floor polish was done. We decided that we needed a more consistent look and polish down the floors a bit more than Matt's previous jobs. The floor polish guy was nice enough to stop in the middle of it to let us decide. However, we lost the window to finish up the job and now we need to wait for warmer weather to continue.

Week 17: Found out that someone in town had complained about our land. That someone turns out to be the head of the building department. The rubble that was pushed over the edge of the cliff during excavation apparently is now a major problem and they want to get the Dept of Environmental Conservation (DEC) involved. What a headache, we received a letter from the building department on Dec 29th that we need to do another plot plan and resolve the erosion with some kind of silt fence. Can't people mind their own business? the property in front of our cliff is also ours, I'm not really sure what they are complaining about. Any erosion is still on our property.

Week 18 and 19: Not much happened. Some window frames with plastic is built to keep snow and rain out. However it's too cold to get roofers to do the roof which we badly need if we are to keep the house dry.