Well?????

okay, we have 20% chance of rain for the next two days.... are our roofers going to be the brave fellows we know they CAN be and attempt to finish the roof so that we can get our windows and doors in and therefore take delivery of our appliances from Sears and our cabinetry from Ikea???

Inquiring minds want to know

Devilish Details

The blue boards are the insulation that will keep our radiant heat from seeping out into the ground and costing us many, many bucks.The silly white dog has her Christmas bow on her neck, which we had to remove because she has such sensitive skin, we don't want to spend many many bucks on her steroid creams.

The devil is in the details because the big conversation this afternoon with Tom's assistant (Tom is on his anniversary cruise) was how to do the blue board under the sliding glass doors....these are issues that could make a huge difference in our heating bills when we're 95 and freezing...

Our first insulation quote is nearly TWICE what we thought it would be.... scotch and water time.

nope

no roof and it is supposed to rain tomorrow turning into snow.....

mebbe, mebbe not

A roof covering today????

Robert Lewis Stevenson, sortakinda

The rain is raining all around

It falls on field and trees.

It rains on the umbrellas here,

and on the ships at sea..

AND MY ROOF DAMMIT....

Rain has probably delayed our house building by 3 1/2 weeks. We, by rights, should have been dried in for over a week. We have had to put off the Sears delivery of our appliances three times and the roofers may or may not be able to put the membrane on today so that we can proceed with our windows which have been waiting silently in the Home Depot warehouse...

AND, RONNA IS GONNA WIN!!! ARRGGGGGHHHHHH!

Thanks to Amazon.com for the image...

Obsessions

My sib, after viewing the house, reported to the others it looked Japanese, which led to emails talking about the influence of the Japanese on FLW.

The other day, we watched Magnificent Obsession, Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings and Legacy in Japan..

These video's thesis isn't that Wright was influenced so much by the Japanese as they just had absolutely identical ideas as far as organic architecture and were well suited, like a good arranged marriage. It was an interesting video with animation that reminds me of Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame. The music got on Pat's nerves toward the end though.

Trinity

One of the things that I want to remember is that it has been a privilege to watch this house get built. It is interesting that although we had visited the Pope-Leighey house and taken pictures and paced out the dimensions, we and our builder, really just have been flying by the seats of our pants. And it has been fun to see that with further reading, it has adhered to alot of the tenets of Wright's philosophy.

In The Natural House Wright talks about all the possibilities when one uses concrete, steel and glass. Although this house is structurally different from the original, it looks the similar. Much like two computers look alike at first, but then you see one is an Apple and one a PC.

We sat in beach chairs in the great room yesterday on our concrete floor, gazing at the steel beams that support the cantilever carport, windows and trellises while a gentle breeze lifted our hair through the windows where the glass will let nature come inside the house.

It's different, and yet it is concrete, steel and glass...

Pat putting in some sweat equity...cleaning sawdust.