Big John is watching

Hello to everyone ...hope everyone is staying warm! We have had some cold wet weather around Saint Louis recently and that has slowed down the progress a little bit. Things are still moving along at a real exciting pace though. As you can see above the shingles on the roof are almost complete. We were hoping to get the windows put in this week but the weather did not allow for the roof to get done thus the windows are scheduled for installation next Monday. I thought I saw a roofer pull up as I was leaving the house today so hopefully it is now done. Even without the windows in things are still getting done inside. You can also see in the picture on the bottom, that our neighbors, the Baum's, have a first floor studded up.

The picture on the bottom shows the staircase down to the basement. This needed to get done so the plumbers could get down there and start the rough plumbing. I met with one of the guys today to go over shower head placement for the huge master shower. I will finally have a shower that I don't need to bend over to wet my head (plus each of us will have some body sprays...should be nice). The picture on the top shows one of the guys putting some drain pipe coming from the kids jack and jill bath. If you can believe it the 3 guys doing the plumbing said the 29 degree temp was not that bad. I was out there for 30 minutes today and my teeth were chattering.

As most of you know my Dad John was a master plumber for many years in Chicago. So I know he is watching over the job being done, and will make sure everything is up to his high standard.

That is all for now. Hope we can show everyone some windows soon!