Month: May 2018

One very cool (literally) bit about living in Minnesota is being able to grow lots and lots of tulips. Tulips need either a period of really cold weather or for

With part I poured and waterproofed it’s time to do some backfilling. But first… We were in NYC when they began backfilling and one of our visits was to Scholastic

Spring is extremely welcome after a long cold dark snowy winter of late sunrises and early sunsets. Did I make winter sound bad enough? Spring can start off kind of

Early the next morning they began stripping the forms and hauling them out. Even though it got down to the upper 30’s overnight the concrete was still quite warm to

They poured the walls on Monday, 165 yards worth, stripped off the forms on Tue and Wed, and did waterproofing and drain tile on Wed, Thu and Fri. Early Morning

Snow is finally melting. Looking east from over our former cabin and future home on 27 April. Yes, Minnesota is rather flat. Our pile may be the highest point in

For those who really like looking at construction photos… Starting with frost footings for the three columns on the garage overhand. Notes are a good idea!