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in the summer of '03 the szuplats purchased property on 12 vacation lane.

found here will be details of putting a structure up

written mostly by erica and photographed a lot by ben, however like most things in life there are exceptions....

for instance ben wrote that last useless sentence.

 

december 19 above is the current state of the clawed feets from the tub

here erica is priming the window sill material (a keen eye will also observe the nicely finished tub in the back ground). we hope to begin installing these (the newly primed window sills - remember) tomorrow the 20th of december. you might ask what color are they going to paint the trim. well dont hold your breath, we are now leaning towards awaiting spring to paint the trim, as it is too cold for the paint.... or that is what we are told. right now we are leaning towards a blue... there is however some dissention in the ranks regarding the hue....also the negotiations for a fridge are nearly completed and it should get unveiled early next week, pending league approval.

 

december 20th

clayton and jen finished off the roof in the early afternoon, yes, yes, yes!

erica in the a.m. doing roof support, here she is cuttin the last of the caps.

these are the pieces that go over the ridge vent on the peak of the roof.

 

carpenter extraordinaire-jim working on an idea of bens.

we are thinking of someday having a chimney,

if you remember way back on like page 2 we even lost a couple days

as the concrete wall guys forgot to put in the footing for the chimney area.

chimneys however are rather expensive so in the meantime we were just going to have

this ackward little ground level roofed area. well, bens bright idea is to have a

little out door shed in the jutting out area. jim has crafted it wonderfully!!

this day also saw an uncounted number of shingles go up.

uncle dub returned for another go, as well as pete and jen

so there are now two sides to the house with singles on them

lastly, jim also hung our (ugly) front door (erica will explain later -

sorry no pictures of the door yet). tonight however is the first night that

the house should be relatively weather and intruder proof!

 

coming soon the fridge!!!

 

 

quick pictorial summary of december 21

verbal description of above pictorial

1 we purchased one rather large, slightly used, mostly stored fridge from sir robert opaluch. -thank you

2 we were guests of miss elanors firstest birthday party- yip yip yipperee

3 we brought the fridge to the house, which looks wonderful in the sun with its roof - bring on the weather!!!

4 we attended the marins holiday party much to nani saunders surprise- holy cow!

5 and lastly several hours of the marins party can make one pouty- and tired (yawn)

 

 

now for a couple of really funny things.... we found this too everything: so we had to include it.....um and were not sure this is um, even legal... so darby or/and his legal staff, im sure, if you got to know us, you wouldnt want to, you know um, sue us for copyright infringement or anything......

 

lastly erica called me (hi this is ben) the other day, after we had put in a hard days roofin. during the conversation she was apparently grooming herself (i know, hard to believe from all the pictures preceeding this point) and found some roofin material in her hair. she said "aw i think ive been walking around all day with ashphalt in my hair." to which i replied.......

"its not my asphalt"

 

dec. 25 (merry xmas!) 26 & 27

siding continues

with appearances from kay!!!

nani!!!

and arlton!!!

of course, our diehards- peter, jen, clayton, jen, stach, ben and erica- shingled and puttied to their heart's content ( or lament?)

with sustenance provided by peggy (dunking donuts) and kim (pizza pizza!)

we can not say thank you enough!!! to everyone; we are blessed this holiday season.

 

i think erica meant to put in this before-christmas picture of the progress of the waterline coming up the street progess... and she forgot.... so here it is- water is making its way up the street.....

 

 

december 28th...state of vacation lane... with assorted crew members

its the eve of the 28th... ben here..... im tuckered.... but felt i must keep our public (6.6 of you now and growing) informed..its been a long 4 days for me. but i feel like we have accomplished a lot, however you always wish it was a little more. i have hopes that the shingling will be done or nearly done by the end of next weekend...stach is getting ready to do some plumbing as early as tomorrow and erica and i will be organizing building the porch this week... again thanks to everyone and merry xedmas

 

my goodness all this talk of a septic system and nothing yet... this septic system teaser stinks, yet you are going to page 7 anyway

(click here im a link)

 

 

 

bens first attempt at inserting a counter.....provided by http://www.digits.com/