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Welcome to my site. I will be Chronicling the construction of our new home. Here is a brief history of my experiance in this area. I moved every few years as a child. As an adult I stayed in one house for 25 years, but helped remodel it four times. From a minor bath redo to adding an entire second story to the house. Now my husband and I have moved to AZ to care for my elderly parents and are undertaking to be the owner/builders of a custom home. Some people don't like change but I guess I'm not one of them. Or perhaps it is just limited change I like. To my husband's current dismay I helped build a 4000 square foot house in Romania in 2001. We took it from slab to fully furnished in 11 days. I therefore have meager patience for the pace of building here in Arizona.

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Walls, Walls, Lots of Walls

As these photos show we now have lots of walls or partial walls. We actually have three separate areas that are enclosed by patio walls. Well, semi-enclosed until we get gates for them. On the front bank we will have three or possibly four Allen block walls. They are not true retaining walls. They are dry stacked so no need for cement footings. They almost finished two of the walls but not quite. Their purpose is to break up the slope and to give us some flat areas for planting. We hope to make major progress on the planting by May 1.(Hope is the key word here!!)

1 Comments:

Blogger nursekiwi said...

Well, I guess we'll have to plan a trip out there next march sowe can see those walls and all the cactus you're planting in bloom!!

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