2012: A new (maybe last?) year of construction!

The front of the house with the bedroom roof and front porch framed!

An exciting moment:  Our first window!  The french door in the dining room.

And more windows, this time in the dining room...

And more windows, now in the living room...

Siding being stained. 

First floor ceiling, which is also...

The second floor flooring!

Windows from the outside!

The Bedroom Framing!

Finally, we have begun working on the house again! While my parents were here visiting these last 10 days, we put up the bedroom framing (yay!), my dad did the rough-in plumbing and my mom and I worked on raking rocks and evening out the ground around the house.  After all of that was done, my mom helped to clean up the first floor and my dad and I worked on putting up the chicken wire that will help to hold the straw-clay infill.  It looks awesome!  Good news:  the straw is arriving on Monday!  I can't wait to start working on the infill!

The house with the bedroom framing.  Now isn't that a sweet little house?

The Homefront

After a week of recovering from an injury, Jason is back to work on the house!  He is now working on the septic system.  It's looking great.

The hole for the septic tank. 

The septic tank and the drains for the leech field. 

Working on leveling the leech field. 

He has also been working on framing in more windows.

In the garden there is all sorts of excitement, too! 

Onion seedlings.  I'm hoping to transplant in two weeks, so I moved them out of their coldframe today and put them into the greenhouse to harden them off. 

Perennial scallions.  We ate some of these in our supper last night.  Delicious!

The garlic just sending up its first shoots.  Can you see the little shoot in the picture?

Looking like something from outer space, rhubarb!

A pleasant surprise--two of my grafting attempts made it!  Here is the first one I noticed. 

And here is the second one I noticed.  Now, don't ask me what kind of apple they will produce.  I was pretty convinced none of my grafting attempts would work last spring, so I didn't label any of them!  These will be a surprise when they begin to produce fruit in a few years.