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My dad retired in March and I naturally assumed that this meant he would spend every waking hour finishing my house.  Right.  We really haven't accomplished much over the past few months that can be seen with the naked eye.  But work is being done!

We have ordered and received about half of the boards needed to frame the house.  We have ordered the plywood needed for the walls and hope to receive that order in the next week or so.  Dad has sketched out the exterior wall plans to measure out where the windows and doors will be so that when we start putting them together we'll have our ducks in a row.

The one thing that has changed at the house site is the addition of the porch columns.  Dad took 10 ft tall pieces of square pipe and created the columns from those.  He painted them white so that they look nicer but they will not be seen in the final product.  We're not sure if we're going to cover them with HardiePlank (the rest of the house will be done in this) or a faux stone that we've seen.

There are still two posts missing in this picture, but they have since been added to make a total of 11 porch columns.

It wasn't until the columns went up that I realized how tall 10 ft ceilings will be!  But I'm excited about the tall ceilings because it will, hopefully, make the house seem larger that its tiny square footage.

Hopefully this summer sees lots of wall construction going on (even though it will be 100 degrees every single day).