At the build this weekend...for 30 minutes.

My Dad was in town this weekend and being the "city-boy" that he is we thought we would show him how the build is progressing, but not spent much more time then that at the site, as he would be completely out of his element.

Also he is 87 year old so he probably wasn't going to do a lot of trucking around at 8700', when he is use to the 1000' of Minneapolis.

The last time he was here was when we were poring the slab back in May. Today we was here to see the new outside slab that was poured last week, namely the patio and driveway.

And yes that is snow in the background.

We went for a organically shaped patio with few straight lines. We also had the concrete colored to match the predominant rock color in the area.

It turned out great.

This is colored concrete vs. stained, that way the color goes completely through the slab. I will end up staining the concrete in the garage that extends outside of the garage doors to match.

The garage doors look good, but I think we will paint them the Essex Green of the trim. Right now they are the same color as the window frames.

The slab was poured last Wednesday and still had the fiberglas fuzzies. It will take a wash and scrub to clean it up.

Here is Marlys in the hot tub, or where it will be located.

As promised, now that I have decent pictures, let me give you an update on the interior. First, last week when we left the inside was sweep-up and everything was put away.

A sure sign that no work was going on.

This week the tile and maple floor started to go in so there is quite the clutter of activity. The tile colors really look great, Marlys did an excellent job of picking them out. The kitchen floor is in and we could be more pleased.

For those of you that participated in the floor choice selection back a few months, thank you for your "advice", but we went with the 5" Maple planks with a distressed Santa Fe finish. The kitchen is done so far and it is looking great.


Hopefully, the floors and tile will be done by Thursday. Marlys and I will be going up for a three day weekend to kick tail on the pine ceiling line sanding and finishing and the interior doors.