Stink Party!

You guys missed a great party on Saturday. We invited my mom over and we painted vile-smelling waterproofing over the new walls. Oh, it was a good time... you don't even know.

Actually, we have made a lot of progress since late September. Shawn built up all the exterior walls on the new footer (see diagram--the yellow is the finished footer, the red is the finished wall.) Then this past weekend we waterproofed all the exterior surfaces that were still exposed. So anything that's grey in the following pictures is new--and now black.

Taking out the I-beams is a bit by bit process. First, the blocks the house is sitting on have to be dry enough to hold the house (naturally), the the I-beams come out one at a time and we fill the holes they came from with a few more blocks.

Here, Shawn portrays the god, Atlas:

These are some pictures from the back part of the house we did over the summer and how we filled in the remaining blocks: