We have guttters!!

Been almost a month since the last post. Hard to make the time when every 15 minutes count toward the house construction. Happy to say gutters went on two weeks ago and resolved most of the water seepage issue in the crawl space. Ventilator fans help draft and dry out the very west side of the crawl space. I'm happy with progress. Soffit priming and painting went as fast as I could paint, until the gutter guys caught up to me. Front and sides are primed and painted and back is at least primed with pre-primed Hardiboard. Grass cutting and fertilizer/ weed control has started to become and issue (yard was cover with a sea of yellow dandelions). As for the gutters, they were made out of recycled steel and we installed 5" gutters with over-sized downspouts. Leaf screens went in immediately.

With 5 acres, we brought on a second riding mower with the help of brother-in-law Kurt. Pool is still laying on the driveway until a scrapper picks it up. Semi-trailer in the back is the next big items to be removed.

We are finding we are always shifting the priorities based on what the weather says. We have been extra lucky to have minimal rain and allow use to dry weather to our advantage.

We were also able to locate Mr. Russ Reed who was the owner previous to the last owner of 10 years. Mr. Reed (who will be 91 this year), came by with his wife and shared an abundant amount of information from the 20 years they owned the property. His wife used to bake wedding cakes in the back house and Mr. Reed built 6 sided picnic tables and supplied scrap lumber to people in the area. We invited them to come by any time to property to visit and share memories. Mr. Reed was disappointed with the lawn condition and said he kept it like a golf course. Unfortunately, the lawn had been ignored for about 8 months and taking time to rehabilitate. Russ wants to bring his mower and cut his old lawn again. With 5 acres I said any time. BYOLM (Bring Your Own Lawn Mower).