by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 8, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
My face froze off just taking pictures. How do these guys do it all day? Does their blood thicken? The big storm came in over the weekend. The kids loved it. I didn't. Here's the math: SNOW ? good for construction Still, they were out there getting the job done. I'd...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 4, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Today we saw the first real sign of construction. Sure, we'd had some excavation. But that's digging down. This was the first, serious, tangible sign of building up. Seeing the forms in place and prepped and the cement poured in was a wonder to behold! Construction!...
by Michelle DeGraw | Dec 3, 2009 | for Home, for Mind
I have been hit with a huge case of writer's block. I have been completely at a loss as to what to write. What little comes to mind does not formulate enough to even make it to the rough draft stage of an article. But I need to get back to writing at MM. So here's my...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 2, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
City building inspector came out. Bad news. Preliminary information wrong. Too much clay in soil. Must dig trenches all around foundation. Must bring out gravel sprayer truck. Must fill trenches with immense amounts of gravel before pouring footings. Ugh. That will...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 1, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
In 1991, six years after we married, Sam finished his PhD in electrical engineering. By that time we had two children. Read that: poor. Also read that: apartment dwellers. By the time we were done, I vowed never again to have bare, white walls in any home. 18 years...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 30, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
After all the years of waiting and planning, digging the hole was almost anticlimactic. In our last home, the hole was a cavernous expanse. In this home…well…it wasn't. Because of the depth of the sewer line running down our street, the basement can't be very deep. If...
