Remembering our family project 40 years ago

1. Remembering our Family Project 40 Years Ago

2. Marking the site for Perc Test
July, 1979

3. Excavation July 79

4. Need all the help
we can get
especially to
recover from rain
washing out some
of the footer forms

5. Footers Sept 5&6, 1979

6. Walls first and later the
concrete basement floors

7. Foundation
Walls and
Floor Trusses

9. Mike is 32 and
Dad is 65 in 1980

11. Bill Strasburg Grading
Basement Floors

13. 10-ft high
Basement
Ceilings
& 4” Slabs

14. Built to
Mike’s
Designs

17. Massive Roof Trusses

19. Godfather Gus & Kathryn visit 13971 & 13973

22. Randy Hinzman and Mike
Drywell Cleanout
40-ft Septic Trench
not shown

24. Christmas @ 6417

26. 4 Wheel Drive in
January 1980

27. Dad installing
10’ x 8’ steel
Garage Door

29. Tony
&
Mike
doing
most
of the
wiring

30. 1980
March
April

31. Mom
is 63
@
Tony &
Janet’s

35. May 1980 - Sheetrocking

38. 13971 Spa
13973 Spa &
Swimming Pool

39. Ken Sizemore
Returns

40. Dad installing Solid Door to Garage

41. What was happening
at Bill & Cathy'

42. Mom at Bill &
Cathy’s

43. A Different Season for Each Bedroom

44. What was going on at 13971 in
the Summer 1980 ?

45. Tony &
Mike
laying the
Teakwood
Floors in
all
Bedrooms

46. What’s Happening at 13971 Now?

47. Villa de Estes

48. First Sign for 4WD – September 1980

50. Removing Blockage in Main Chimney

52. Mom’s Sunroom to Remember
September 15 – November 20, 1992

53. Removing Two Brick
Pillars – Sept 15

54. Two Trenches for Four new Piers
– Sept 17, 1992

55. One Trench
and Four
Forms

56. Footers

57. Four New Brick
Pillars
Sept 25

58. Future She Shed

59. Three
Mikes
on the job
Dad = 77
Me = 44
M Jr = 5

60. 2x6 Framing
28’ x 16’ od
Sunroom
Sept 27-30

61. TG ¾” Floor
(3) 20a 120v
(1) 20a 240v

62. Strasburg Kubota ->
Here comes the Steel

63. Roof Trusses
Custom Designed
Mid- October

64. Rain
Coming

65. Under Roof
Oct 20

66. Getting Ready
for the Pre-cast
Concrete Sabs

67. Bricklaying Walls starts
and Steel Lintels in Place
- Late October

68. Crane lifts Slabs
over ROOF
This 25’ x 4’ Slab is
the back Walkway

69. Placed Three 4-ft x 14’ Slabs
Need to extend outside I-Beam to
place last 2’ x 14’ Slab

70. Late October 1992

71. Team of
Bricklayers
did all the
walls in
late
October

72. Inside
Wiring,
Ceiling,
Windows
all done in
October

73. October 1992

74. October
1992

75. John Parrot

76. Welding on
an I-Beam
Extension
& Placing
the last
Slab 2’x’14’

77. Late October

78. November

79. November
Inside Jobs

80. Parrot has
done his part

81. Mike does
the
Electrical
& Mom
Cleans

82. Byron & Barry
Cross
Doing the Oak
Floor
along with the
Metal Fences
Guys

88. Christmas
Family
Photo 1992

90. Mom’s Dream
Come True -
A Family Effort
Mom lived here
for 26 years until
June 2006

91. Priceless