Beautiful day, Shore Side Farm House

Oh what a beautiful day. It is warm enough here to be in shirt sleeves, and judging from the guys down the block, even be without a shirt. Mr is making time on the foundation and he finds all sorts of junk in the soil around the house as he goes. Over the last couple of days he found a broken dish and two glass milk bottles. We could make a museum from the junk hauled out of this crawlspace and the soil around the house.

 I can't imagine what we would find if we ever took to putting in and addition or garage. It is kind of frightening to consider the possibilities. This time it was a saucer with a pink flower design and two Aristocrat milk bottles, from Baltimore, MD.The milk bottle has quite a bit of red lettering printed on it and a face on the top section. It looks like a 1940-50s era bottle that took the paper cap top.  I wonder how milk from there got here when there were cows a lot closer than that!?


Mr has been making great progress. He is well into the additional section he took on on the south side of the house. One thing is in his favor, being on the south side the sun keeps it light and comfortable. The north side of the house is damn cold inside and out. The footings were laid yesterday, 

 

 the block has been going in today. He has the corner laid and expects to have that wall done by the end of the day. Yeah! I am sure hoping to get some finishing work done inside the house soon. Every project in this house hinges on that damn foundation because it is exactly that the foundation of the house. When he jacked up the diningroom corner, it didn't do anything damaging to the dining room, but it ripped up the spackling and corner taping in the upstairs hallway. Coincidentially the hallway was being painted at that time and lifting the house undid the work that has just been completed upstairs to improve that area. Fortunately the floors that were being painted up in the hallway were not effected by the house jacking, but now the hallway area, which is large, can not be painted until the place is spackled. This whole place is like a living body. You can't do any job without it effecting ten other areas of the house. I really want to get that hallway done and now it is set back quite a bit. I never seem to get used to it, the inconvenience of it, but it always happens the same way. Why am I surprised when it happens again?