Our First Construction Accident...

Tuesday morning Summer and I were over at the new house inspecting the progress when out of nowhere one of the concrete guys caught our eyes. He had his hand up to his chest and had it wrapped with a brown paper towel. Summer being the quick thinker that she is quipped, "So Dennis, was a trip to the emergency room included in the bid?" I of course, being a little more compassionate asked what happened, at which point he took the paper towel off for a second. That's all it took! We were on the way to the hospital. Dennis was as white as a sheet on the way up there and I kept saying.."I'm not going to loose you now am I?" I was VERY happy to get him to the emergency room! I went and told his wife at the school that she teaches at and then came home. Report as of last night was that he had gone into surgery at 6:30 A.M. yesterday morning to see if they could reattach the finger, his pinkie on the left hand, it is a wait and see thing now. He severed 6 ligaments, the nerve, and clipped the knuckle. How did it happen? He was cutting a piece of sheet metal stuff for the suspended slap front porch cap. His blade broke and it flew off and took his finger with it! He is in a fight with his wife because he thinks that he is going to pour cement this morning at our house. I hope she wins. He is suppose to have his hand over his head for 24 hours. Some of you might remember that Dennis is the guy that Isaac worked for when he got home from his mission. We feel terrible and certainly hope he recovers quickly.

Other news from the Ericksons... Jim officially retired. He is working part time as a private contractor. Most of his time is spent at the house. They made me a V.T. this last week, so I am going out to meet my new sisters today and Crystal is coming home on Saturday. We will be glad to have her home. Wish I had a home...anyway, she will be staying with Emmy as Blake leaves for his deployment to Baharang on the 23rd of Sept.

.This is the back court yard...

Front Porch ready to pour.

This is what Dennis was working on when he got hurt.

Summers House

This is the back of my house. Walk out basement.

This is the staircase to the upstairs boys bedrooms.

Pictures, pictures, pictures.....

Summer's Staircase to nowhere... My House.

The walls going up at Summer's house. Summer's house.
Floors for the Palmer's!

Be Patient... I'm still getting the hang of this..

Foundation waterproofing and french drain. Jim and Corey had to put this protective sleeve on the drain pipe. I would have loved to have been there and taken a picture of that process!

The house is surrounded by french drains except in the back courtyard and that will have a drain and a sump pump. We should be kept dry!

Temporary power has been our biggest headache so far. Corey (really Jim using Corey's name) had to call the power company three or four times....the last time was not pretty! Corey-Jim really lost his temper! Two days later we had power! The framers were celebrating!

Underground plumbing..

Gravelmaster people putting in gravel. Getting it ready for cement.

Dennis Longfellow and crew working on the floors. Alot of cement. We had three pours. Summer and Coreys house one day...ours the next and then the storage areas the next day.

Dennis Longfellow...this ones for you Isaac!

Summer and Corey's basement.

Wow! I have finally learned how to do this..I think...

I'm sorry that this has taken so long for me to get more pictures here on the blog. No excuse except that I never get to sit here at the computer and that if I did, I didn't really know what I was doing. but Russ sat down with me this morning and helped, so now I'm ready to give it a try.

We are excited at the good progress that has been made on the house. Our framers are awesome! They work long, hard days and just make amazing things happen! Yesterday they put up the second story walls for Summer's house and tell us that they will be doing the trusses by next week. I will let pictures tell the real story, Here goes..Noemi and Charity and cute kids!
Tiff and kids...
Fun on a mountain of dirt...

The Supermarket will open shortly...oh wait that's our house!