Island Life

So, the framing is up and the boys were making sure everything was plum.  Basically, the walls went up in a day and the rest of the week was inspecting the electrical conduit and water line from the street to the house and plumbing the walls.  The trench has to be 2 & 1/2 feet deep and the water and electrical lines need to be 12 inches apart.  Today the inspector came out, gave his okey dokey and the trench was covered minus the two ends where they will make the hookups.

so basically you're looking at the front door where the pile of two by fours are.  to the right is the study and where the
big beams are is the lanai,

This is the lanai.  it will be open but covered.  You can see the three beams.  the short one will hold up the other two.  behind the lanai is the master bedroom.

So we had a bit of excitement the other day.  Crissie, better known as the "Chicken Lady" forgot to latch the coop door and 34 chickens went awol.  So Pono the dog, Crissie and I herded them back in the pen but not before losing three.  One came back today.  Now chickens are easy to catch when you're a young kid, but at 70 one doesn't move as spryly, so we enticed them with food and tried to herd them with a rake.  An hour and a half later we gave up on the three and Crissie was faced with telling Marilyn what happened.  I think the hens were traumatized because they laid more eggs than ever before - two dozen.  Maybe we should let them out more often.

Crissie trying to rake them around the pen to the door.

Finally, we can't believe how many Northwest connections we have with the people we've met here.  Monty Miranda, our builder, as you know went to Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton on a bull riding scholarship.  He won the rodeo one year.  His wife, a teacher, went to Eastern Oregon State College in La Grande.  Richard, Monty's foreman's Dad lives in Bonners Ferry.  Our State Farm House Insurance agent, Jasmine has parents that live in Spokane on Eagle Ridge.  Gary, whom we hope will make our cabinets has a son who graduated from Western Washington U (where Shannon graduated) and is currently teaching 5th grade (how I started) in Redmond.  It appears that a lot of Hawaiians from here prefer the Northwest probably because they want a change of weather and scenery.  I say, if you want cold and snow, just go up to Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa and get all you want.  For us, we'll take Hawaii.  Hopefully next week we'll get the trusses.