I've said it before.....

....and I'll say it again, in my next life I'ma gonna marry me!!!!

No house progress this week, 'cos Mr. M has the BEST wife.  Snowmobiling fun over at Crescent Lake in Central Oregon! Thanks Butch, I nominate you to help get the house done in the summer :) :)

I did get to enjoy some snow too, it isn't all work and no play in my life donchaknow....
www.snowedininportorford.com

 

 

Finishing touches....

It becomes apparent how many finishing touches there are in life - none more so than when building a house.  Mr. M spent this week finishing off the front porch.

Fancy templates...

Then you bend the copper...

And you have finished copper caps for the end of the porch purlings, to protect them from rain...

Then more templates for the router....

Routing out the cedar posts and putting in the bracing struts, ya'know, for when The BIG one strikes...

And then he was back to making boxes for the ducting, one box only, and apparently it was a design that also needed a template...

Then lots of metal cutting....

Put all your shapes together, and voila, looks just like it said on the tin...

And FINALLY I'm getting a start on my interior vision boards.....

And also planning for my Spring garden, it really is just around the corner!

Ducking..... Ducting....

Not much to report but it is a fine line between me not writing a blog and everyone thinking Mr. M doesn't do anything.. :)

So it's been a week of ducting, ducting not ducking! He started off making a big silver box....

There is a fancy slide out which is where the filters will slide in...

Then he added on a curvy bit....

Made a rectangle....

Put it all together on top the air handler...

And you've got yourself some fancy duct work....

 

I'm almost 100% sure this was a lot more complicated than my brief overview, otherwise I need to start checking in during the day as this took him the full week!

 

In the meantime dudes, keep your noses clean....

If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.....

Happy New Year, we are rapidly approaching the end of the shingles.  Mr. M is definitely on the home stretch and since he has been back from his Christmas hols it's been full guns blazing.

And then he got all imaginative.  The Welsh Dragon , also known as the Y Ddraig Goch ("The Red Dragon") is a dragon that appears in Celtic Mythology/Welsh Folklore.   The dragon itself is named Dewi, modernly Welsh for David, the patron saint of Wales. 

So peeps, meet Dave..

First you need a pattern (Thanks Mr. Tesco's from a recent Welsh trip)..

You then draw around the pattern onto the shingles...

Next you cut out each individual shingle.  Dave is created using multiple levels and ramps... (apparently)...

And then you have a dragon...

Take him outside and nail him up...

Dave your gorgeous....

At this point for those that take an interest in these things you will note that all the shingles line up with the bottom of the windows, the top of the windows, all in level rows around the house.  12,000 nails, 6,000 shingles and about 5 months in total...



 

In other news from the homestead, we've been enjoying some sunny weather in amongst the winter storms....

 

And my winter garden has been giving it all.  It's not the size of the cauliflower that counts, it's the taste....

 

I'm already planning for my Spring planting, and Mr. M is planning for heating and venting.