LIGHTS!

We were meeting with Nick last evening and Nate, the electrical contractor ran in and turned on some lights to show us.

There are LED lights to mark the path on the stairs;  LEDs  lighting the top of the shelves and under the bottom kitchen shelf.  Love them!

A/C, Light Fixtures, Power, and Counter-Tops

Who-ho!  The A/C units have been installed.  The unit in the Bunkhouse (below)  is called a mini-split and is mounted on the wall above the kitchenette. (Sink, counter-top microwave, and full refrigerator.)

Third floor unit

Bunk House

Exterior light

Master bedroom

3rd floor "big ass" fans

Talavera sink in 3rd floor half bath

 If you're not familiar with Talavera pottery, you'll find the sink a bit different. We picked it up in Lorado, TX on the border.  It isn't like the sinks we have in our bathroom, or any of the others.

The "big ass" fans are not actually from the Big Ass Fan company, but are 68 inches in diameter for the Living and Dining room and 60 inches for the others.

The granite counters below, are not really blue, that's protective plastic on them, but there's an uncovered piece of granite to Alese's left across where the stove will be.  We still don't have a move-in date, but things are moving along.  Floors are on the list of soon-to-be completed items.

Kitchen with granite counters

Progress... Paint and Electrical fixtures

 Our garage doors are reinforced.  You can see all the braces, at least twice the number of doors in other locations, even those subject to tornado.

Rooms are mostly painted.  Here's the Bunkhouse bunks and looking closely you can see electrical switches, and outlets in place and even one of the ceiling cans.

 Most of the walls are a warm gold.  Ray's office is the exception, being a very slightly green off-white called "horseradish".  Very hard to tell from the photo below.

 The 3rd floor walls are all washed in gold, but the ceiling is washed white.

We're Back.....

No, we weren't gone, but were waiting.  Waiting, waiting.  There was carpentry work that needed to happen inside, so the drywall could be finished before other things could happen.   So, for about 3 weeks the only action in the house was the tile installation, but that's still not complete.

But we did put up a mailbox because we're giving the address to some groups.


Last week, we finally got the carpenters in, then the rest of the sheet rock done and textured, and we were ready for more action.

15 loads of sand were delivered to begin sculpting the lot.  It sounds like a lot of sand, but we're pretty sure now we need at least another 15 or 20 to get the contours we want.

We now have garage doors.  That means the house can be locked up.  Now we can start to see more equipment installed!



Last Saturday we had a real downpour.  We have a rain gauge so we can keep track of rainfall.  Mustang Island and downtown Corpus Christi get very different amounts of rain.  Our little gauge was full.  So at least 5 inches of rain fell on our lot.  Our new sand showed it.  We had some interesting canyons with the water running off the roof -- remember, no gutters.  Gutters aren't recommended for potential hurricane targets.  The sand had to be re-sculpted this week.

We had water in the swale on Sunday, but by Monday the swale was empty, but certainly not dry.  You can see that the ponds did fill.

Photo update

Alese is out of town a few days for a family funeral, so this update is to help her see what she's missed, and to provide an update for the rest of the readers.

Our Nook (aka mud room) in the first floor hallway.

Progress on the Master Bath Shower.

This is a more focused look at the trim strip that will go around the shower

My apron-front kitchen sink in the cabinet.  

Concrete floor has been sanded.

There are two roofers on the master, finishing up.

And a closeup of them working.