Concrete!

Finally, the basement floor is poured! Also the front steps and entrance area, and all the way around the garage.

28th Western Canadian Hungarian Folk Festival - 28. Nyugat-Kanadai Magyar Folklór Fesztivál

"What a great success!!"

"Best ever festival!"

"Extremely well orgainzed!"

All we have been getting are rave reviews like these from everyone. Thank you so much to our awesome organizing committee (Attila, Chris, Elsie, Julie, Katie, Klementina, Leanne, Mary, Rob, Zsuzsa) and to ALL the others behind the scenes.

Coming Along!

It's been a long time since the last update. Nothing has changed on the outside. Things are progressing slowly and nicely. Electrical is in; plumbing is in; just waiting to have the basement floor poured and the outside areas...around the garage, sidewalk and front entrance. The stairs are finally constructed to get up into the loft/office area above the garage! It will be a great workspace for Attila. I may never see him again! Hmmm.

Festival is just around the corner; Dűvő arrives in a couple of weeks; soon after Gábor and Franci also arrive...dance, dance, dance, buli, dance some more.

Windows and Shingles!

Not too much has changed (visibly) over the past few weeks. The shingles are on the roof and the windows and doors have been installed. The electrical is done upstairs. We are still waiting for the basement floor and garage floor to be poured.

Roof - Stairs - Deck!!

The pictures are self explanatory. We have a robin family that have moved into the garage. One of the birds was freaking out that we were walking around. That's OK. I'll will be my turn to freak out on them when we move in and they are still there. The stairs are in at the front entrance; still waiting on the stairs leading up into the loft/office. I haven't been up there yet-we keep forgetting to bring a ladder with us.

Attila Has An Office!

Attila's office area above the garage - has walls. He's very excited and can hardly wait to move in and start using it. The windows and doors were also delivered today. We'll be changing the front door - we actually never got to choose the style...aaaaannd...we don't like it.
Just a silly shot of Tisza - she makes us laugh!

Front & Back

These first two shots are of the trees that we'll see right outside our front door.

This is a neat shot of the front entrance; you can see right through to the other side.
...the grass is always greener on the other side!

Outside Walls!

Framing is moving right along. Today Attila and I went for a visit and the outside walls are all up except for the Great Room. Now we have a better perspective of the rooms and WINDOWS! WOW! They're huge.

• The first picture is the view from the dining room
• I'm standing in the dining room looking across the house towards the ensuite
• View from the window in what will be the magyar szoba
• And last - Attila in the great room.

Everything is wet - there was a bit of a downpour just before we got there. Apparently this week is supposed to be rainy.

More Framing!

Attila and I took Tisza for a visit to her future home. She was "barátkozni" with the horses, llamas, ponys that are on the farm across from us. The horses, llamas, ponys noticed Tisza and became very curious. They would run towards us, spot Tisza and run away - but immediately turn back towards us again. It was quite funny to watch.

Back-filled & framing!

Last night we went for a visit to the acreage...the piles of dirt around the house have now been "back-filled". We can actually walk right up to the concrete walls and look down into the basement. This afternoon we drove out again with Attila's parents and the framing has begun. In the photo I'm looking through what will be a basement window of one of the two bedrooms. In the bottom photo, I'm standing in the garage.

Walls!

Attila, Elsie and I drove out after bingo to check out the house. Monday they should backfill and later in the week the framing begins!

Poured!

The concrete was poured this past Monday, May 1st. YAY! Tuesday we went to Legacy to review the cabinets (kitchen, washrooms, bar). Later we had our 2nd appointment with Canyon Plumbing. We still have about 6 other places to go for selections (baseboards, casings, doors, door knobs, lighting, stairs, railing, granite, exterior colors....the list goes on). Hopefully we'll get out there in the next couple of days for photos.

Cribbing

Cribbing is done, just waiting for the concrete. Right now there is a "road ban", which means heavy trucks cannot drive on the side roads because of the earth thawing and from all the rain at the end of March-beginning of April.

Acreage

March 14th - The digging has begun!