Stone retaining walls and Firepit

We spent a couple of days last week completing the grading of the site as well as installing the various stone retaining walls. My excavator, Mike, and I installed 7 dump-truck loads of sandstone/mudstone rocks and river boulders. The sandstone has various shell fossils in it making it a very interesting rock for the kids to explore. Drywall is taped now and will have a hand troweled texture put on it this week and interior painting will start too. We are currently building our stairs, and island cabinets in my fathers shop--pics coming soon.

Patio, insultion, and drywall

We poured our last concrete patio yesterday--a 650 square feet wrap around patio that connects the entrance patio to the master bedroom patio. We inset river boulders into the patio to soften the feel of all the concrete. We also place a couple of really special horse-shoes from Grandpa Sand's mountain horses. Insulation has been completed (1" expanded poly foam to seal and then 4.5" of netted and filled fiber glass for an R-26 wall) and the dry-wallers started hanging board yesterday. We are still looking to complete the project by late August or early September. Enjoy the patio pics!