Not much has been happening on the house lately because i think our builder has other projects that he has his crews working on, but they have finished a lot of the siding. Almost all of the main sheets of it are installed on the lower level, and they've started the trim around the windows and doors as well as putting up the vertical battens for the board and batten look.




In my picture rumaging around this afternoon I came across a couple of shots of the old house before Hurricane Ivan and scanned them into the computer. It really was a pretty place.




And, lest anyone forget, here's the tree that destroyed the home during the hurricane. It was actually just one limb that came off in the storm and fell on the house, but it crushed the upper level and knocked the rest of it sideways. Live oak wood is REALLY heavy.



When the tree came down in preparation for building the new house we ended up with a large pile of mulch, and we're waiting for the house to get completed before we do very much with it. With all of our rain lately mushrooms have been going crazy around here, and here is a shot of some of the pretty orange ones growing out of the mulch pile.