The Blueprints

The final plans for the house are back. Our architect, Michael Booth, was able to work with us and we are really happy with what we came up with. The house will be 2244 sq. feet when completed. That's crazy huge to us- we can't even imagine.
Here are a couple pics from the set of plans.

Big Poplar Tree

Me, my cousin Rodney, my Dad and his friend Press cut the largest tree ever cut on this mill. It was a 42 inch diameter poplar tree from Rodney's yard. This tree was sawed into 1500 board feet and stacked in a day and a half. -G

The roof, the roof...

Greg worked hard sorting through 100+ year old slate, picking out the best for our future roof. This is the slate that Clark and his brother Jimmy salvaged from the roof of the old Thompson orphanage and church in Charlotte years ago.

The rest of us just sat around supervising and eating lunch.