Sill plate, floor joists, and underfloor wiring, plumbing, and drain lines done.

Lumber is so expensive this year!

Frankie is painting the fascia boards for the outside of the roof.

There's sort of an indoors now.

The cottage is 640 square feet and has 18 windows.  The house we are renting now is 1400 square feet and has 8.

Maybe we thought there was an indoors before, but now we mean it.

We have run water lines to the bathroom, kitchen, and outdoor spigots, as well as all the drains and vents.

We have begun putting in some of the wiring and receptacles. We bought a 400 Amp circuit breaker panel, but it won't be installed for weeks.

We passed the stucco lath inspection.  We did a 1-coat job, so we'd get another inch of styrofoam insulation on the outside.

The house is now weatherproof.  Or it will be as soon as we have doorknobs, I guess.  Next up:  Doorknobs!  And electrical panel.

Joe failed the cinder block challenge, so we made some temporary steps out front.  Eventually we plan a terrace of some kind.

We just learned that when you get deadbolts at the same time, you can look at the key number to make sure the same key opens all of them, so our front and back doors use the same key.  Handy!

We had to dig a 200 foot long 40 inch deep six inch wide trench (involving renting a giant trencher) to lay in 3 inch conduit from the electric pole to the cottage.

After laying our conduit, we had an improbable and unseasonable three inches of rain that flooded our trench -- making the conduit float up out of it while mud sluiced underneath.  Poop!  Fixing that caused some delay.  Finally got our electric tags on November 4.

Finally got our trenches and conduit and wires and whatnot sorted out, and SMUD has hooked us up to power.  Yay! Next we'll have to install all the circuit breakers in the panel and start getting the power on inside.

We built one side of one interior wall so that when we turn on the power we have a place to plug things in. It's unfinished on the other side so we can still get inspections.

We had the professionals tar and feather the bottom of the shower stall.

We have some refractive film on the big kitchen window that sprays pretty colors on our one wall at noon.