THE "FAMILY" BUILDING PROJECT

Looking toward the street from on the property.

Keith and Kelly reunited!!

As many of you may have heard, we have started a "building project". We have purchased a lovely lot with a nice view of the mountains around Homer and the Caribou Hills, some 40-80 miles away, and have started building the first phase, a shop/ with 2 apartments in one end. Dallas & Melany and Rod & I will live in the apts while we build homes later.

The building is 50'X70', two stories tall, and will contain two apartments, a fish/meat processing room, a walk in freezer and cooler (Those of you who have been up here fishing/processing with us in years past will appreciate this little addition. I know I will!!!. There will be work rooms, tool rooms, food storage rooms and a high ceiling drive thru bay with garage doors on both sides for working on big equipment like boats, RV's and such. It will be a Great Shop. I will have a car garage now that won't include snowmachines, 4-wheelers, trailers and various vehicles that need to be worked on!

Road Stewie built going into the property

The "Bosses" consulting. Dallas & Rod

Happy to be here!

Smooth moves from Dallas

Looking toward the "shop/apartments during the construction . Forming the foundations/stem walls, and getting the floor work ready for the cement.

Stewie playing on the bobcat. He's actually working, but he makes it look like play!

Stewie and Sam

Rod supervising the construction crew!

Looking back toward where the house will set (where the truck & trailer is).

The Happy crew, taking a small break

Looking toward the back of the property from the street view

Keith and Jared Thomas working the cement

The backhoe Stewie used to clear the land, dig footings etc. Notice our first visitor, a young moose beneath the bucket helping himself to some tender branches left over from the excavation.

My brother Stewie Dave has been doing the dirt work, Septic, Water lines and digging the foundations as well as driveways into and out of the lot.
Rods brother Dallas has moved up and is the construction Supervisor. He is an Electrician and General Contractor. Keith and Sam (Dallas' youngest son) joined us next, then Keith's twin brother Kelly came up last week, who is helping with concrete and will do our plumbing, (He's a plumbing contractor) and they love digging trenches, building forms, shoveling dirt and pouring concrete!!! Kelly and Keith are having quite a time visiting, they were very close as children, being identical twins, but they live several hundred miles apart. With families and work they just don't get a lot of opportunity to work together.
Tomorrow they'll start standing up the walls! Pretty exciting, should go fast now, at least it will seem like a lot of visible progress for a while. We'll continue to take more photographic evidence of the coming progress.