It seems more of you are interested in THE PROJECT than I anticipated. I suppose it beats the endless filosofizing and melodrama with which I would otherwise fill these virtual pages. And of course, the last thing I want to turn this building story into is a filosofize-ed-melloo-dram-tic diatribe on the medeocre efforts of paying someone to build us a house.

It's an effort, but not THAT much of one.

In fact, I would dare to suggest that it is generally very amusing and deeply exciting -- for me, at least -- and as such deserves to be spoken of and written of with careful reverence, or something otherwise approaching careful disclosure. Nevertheless, I'll try and break it up a little bit in hopes that it gets neither so monotonous nor lacking -- which it might do if I risk running out of material. It's a risk, and especially after attending (count) three turkey-roasts this weekend where the house-topic popped up on occasion; I don't want to sound like a scrambled MP3 file -- or an audio analogy approaching the modern equivalent of a broken record.

So, for example, the floor plan: one main floor and one top floor modified as we're building. The original, of course, belongs to Jayman and I'm probably breaking a half-dozen copyrights and contractual agreements by modifying and posting them here, so I'll give them full credit and hope I don't receive an angry letter from some lawyer for doing so. They are on Jayman's site to download, anyhow.

Jayman Jayman Jayman -- There. And three makes five links. That should make someone happpy.

Moderately disappointed, Melanie writes : "So you would have been our neighbours!!! And we went and moved before you got in.... "

True. Terwilligar is quite close. Yes, we nearly could have thrown rocks at your old place from our new one. Not that we would have of couse -- it's just a really bizaare and (unfortunately) nasty figure of speech. Ah, well. At least you know where we live, now.

And maybe, someday soon, I'll post something concrete: like foundation pictures. (Smirk: Get it? Concrete? Get it? Wink! Wink!)

October 12, 2004 after 1PM | house , meta | this is more