Do I Feel A Chill?

FINALLY...the day has come....

It's time to hook up the GeoThermal and get it running!!!
We HAD to be ready for them today or else we would have had to wait like 4-6 more weeks!!!  The temps are just getting a little warm to take that risk!

Josh & Kenny figuring out the wiring.

Notice Kade is looking on from afar...they were all trying to figure out why it wasn't working...

Maybe this will work??

FINALLY - - she's up and running (and yes, I just called our GeoThermal a "she", lol)

WE

HAVE

AIR CONDITIONING!!!

It's unfortunate that Kade won't let us keep it on, lol.

Time to finish up some insulation, etc. upstairs and get the drywall hangers out here!

Come on....

Oh my gosh...our list of things to finish before drywall is getting smaller and smaller (but still never ending, lol!)  What is up with that??  I'm hoping to be all ready upstairs for drywall by June 11.  That's right...I said JUNE 11..and yes, I realize that is only 8 days away!!

This is what I've been doing....sealing off all holes in the walls - around wires or where we've pulled old wires out and not replaced them.

I've also been working on the insulation.  Most of the old is being replaced with a product called Roxul.  I LOVE IT!!  It's so much nicer to work with than fiberglass insulation!

You can't see them, but the can lights are all ready to go above the stairs!

Oh look it's Kade moving the sitting room light.  (I know he didn't want to do it, but he will be glad that he did when all is said and done)

Don't know if I showed this before...that's the dresser that we're converting to the hall bath vanity.  This is the dresser that's mirror I "stole" for the half bath!

Fiberglass insulation between the bedrooms

The big front bedroom...getting filled with Roxul!

There's the new GeoThermal...still not all hooked up.

Kade's got a couple thing to do still with the plumbing!

Oh look, it's our finished concrete hole!!  NICE!

More of our finished concrete...so nice!

I thought I'd take a little stroll around the outside and see what else is going on out there now.  I get so caught up on the work that I forget that there are actually some GOOD things that don't require our constant labors, lol!

Yummy!  I wish where these are located wasn't such a mess!  Raspberries are one of my fav's!

Grapes are growing in that same mess.  Hopefully these will make it and I will get to eat a few!

And then we've got gooseberries too!  I haven't tried a green one yet, but I did try a purple one (I didn't even know that they got purple, lol!)  Not too bad I must say!

Oh look, it's me doing insulation!  Look, I do exist!  AND I actually work on the house, lol!

Just about done in here!  I've got a few more wire holes to fill with the fire barrier, then I can put the rest of the insulation in!

Even Kade likes to install the Roxul!  See...he's doing it now instead of working on the wiring and plumbing that need to be finished, lol!  Gotta love him!

This stuff is so cool because most of the scraps we will even be able to use.  It's an R15, and such a dense insulation.  Mold and Moisture resistant and the rodents DON'T LIKE IT!!  YAY!!

 

Well lookie there...the front bedroom is DONE!  Just need to clean out all of the old insulation as soon as we get another dumpster. (which we will be doing right before the drywallers come.  We actually got all three of the bedrooms done.  Now I just need to finish some interior walls, the kitchen and the sunroom.  Ahhh...that looks a lot worse when I type it all out like this :)

Oh yes...we've decided that we are going to have the drywall done.  All along I've said that we were going to do it...but we decided it was worth the money to get it done soooo much quicker!  So we are working on our check list so that they can come SOON!!  We've only got a few more things to check off of the list...so it won't be long now!

Hallelujah!

The rain missed us!!  I guess God knew I wouldn't be able to handle it  :)  Check out this weather map...IN...SANE!!!  How it missed us there is just one answer....and he loves us all!

 

So the guys from the digging company got there around 10:00 (they had like a 2 hour drive, yuck!)  They got right to work.  I was sooo impressed with how quickly they could do everything.  I mean, I realize that they do this for their job...but still...they were fast!!

They started at the pond and just backed their way up the hill...digging all the way!

There's the loops that they actually put into the water!  Kade came home at lunch to check on things so he got to talk to them a little bit and see some of what was going on.

The entire thing was only about 6' wide by 8' deep.  CRAZY!

Man they're quick...I don't even think they'd been working for 30 minutes and they were already just about done digging!! 

Look at that!  It only took them about 4.5 hours total...they were packed up and gone by about 2:30!

It's going to take awhile before that dirt settles...

we'll probably have to scrape off the top and fill as it sinks in!!

As an added bonus...we had a small tree stump on the side of the house and Kade had said to the mini excavator driver...feel free to take that stump out if you want too...

and so he did!!  THANKS MINI EXCAVATOR DUDE!

Our peony's were blooming today too...gorgeous!  I think we're going to have to move them though...the "bed" if you can call it that...is about 50% weeds and 50% peony plants!

What more could we ask for...a job well done, perfect weather and beautiful flowers!  I'm happy!

And so it begins...

Good morning!  Indeed it was!  First day of the actual HVAC install!  The company installing the actual pond loops are suppose to come tomorrow (provided it doesn't rain...and guess what they're predicting...BIG STORMS!!)  UGH!!  Well..I've said my prayer and I think God knows how important this is to my mental health, lol.  It just seems like everything is going SOOOO SLOOOOWWW!  I tend to get a bit anxious when this happens.  (what is wrong with me??)

There they are...bright and early!

I got more painting done tonight...figured I might as well...I can't do much else at the moment.

Look at that shiny new duct work!! Josh & Kenny are doing a great job (and they are a hoot to listen too...they're just like an old married couple, lol!)

Everyone please pray to your God that the rain misses us tonight!

GeoThermal time!

Yes indeed!  I can't believe it's already time to get the HVAC system installed!  As you know, we committed to the GeoThermal  :)  Well, today was the day they brought everything that they're going to need to do the install.  Look at the basement...it WAS clean!!  Now it's full of duct work and misc. parts!

After they delivered the stuff we went to Lowe's to pick up our subfloor material for the basement.  We're going to try out this Dricor system.  It looks like it should work...and hopefully it will  :)  We had a bit of a dilema though....go figure!  Lowe's got both pallets of Dricor loaded onto the trailer...and then one of the tires went flat.  UGH!  While we were there I decided that I'd better paint those awful yellow walls BEFORE they put the furnace in place....so I had to get some paint too!

What a crock!  That is a flat tire for sure...not just a slow leak, lol.  It went down in like 5 minutes!

 

Doesn't that white wall look SOOOO much better than the electric lemon yellow on the other wall?  I'll have to finish that later...but HAD to get to that area behind the furnace TONIGHT!

Kade was told to get all of the pluming done tonight, so that's what he did...when they start putting up the duct work he won't be able to get up there and get it done.  He cranked it all out in about 4 hours though...I am impressed!  PEX is soooo much quicker than copper!  Thanks for the warning Josh!

We had ONE LAST thing to do tonight...We HAD to go to the auction because today was Johnny's 16th Birthday!  (and yesterday was Jeffie's 22nd Birthday!) so I made some cake pops per Johnny's request and we took them up there at about 10:00  :)  Had a small celebration...and then headed back home.

Johnny & Jeffie with their Grandma Joyce - Happy Birthday Boys!!

We definitely had a full day today!  We should both sleep well tonight  :)