Day 20 - January 8

The basement walls on Day 10 - December 29

I don't understand all the ins and outs of it, but we had about a week where there wasn't much activity at the house. The basement walls needed to harden or something. [Side note: I should really show Don how to update this so he can include the technical stuff that I haven't bothered to absorb.] We did go out and look things over on Day 10, though I don't think much had visibly changed.

On New Year's Eve, temperatures reached 60 degrees so we ventured out to see how things looked when they weren't snow-covered. Our quick visit turned into a couple of hours of chatting with our new neighbors. We're excited to spend more time with Bob and Mike and their families, and we're grateful for the standing invitation to the Friday-night bonfires in the cul-de-sac.

A week of very cold temperatures and attempts at getting back into some kind of post-holiday routine followed, and here we are at Day 20:

The basement floor has been poured, and there's a window well!





Here, I've wandered over to the other side of the garage.

Taken from what will one day be the back patio.

Don and I agreed that the basement felt smaller than we'd pictured in our heads. Standing in the yard looking down on it, we wondered how we'd possibly fit all our basement furniture in there once the basement bedroom is walled off. But once we climbed down into it and started pacing off where the couch will go and which way the treadmill will face, we determined it's bigger than it looks and that we should just trust our builder and their to-scale drawings with furniture!