January – March, 2005: Windows, doors, roof…completing exterior, starting interiors. Monday, January 3, 2005 Happy New Year! Roof pretty much complete. Have a look from Pfefferkorn Road and around the neighborhood. Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Getting ready for a real roof. Monday, January 17, 2005 We have windows and doors! Friday, January 21, 2005 Now …
November – December, 2004: Exterior and interior framing, and getting a roof. We have the basics of a house in four months since groundbreaking. Monday, November 1, 2004 Allie and I stopped by after school. We have floors! Tuesday, November 2, 2004 We return the next day. We have the first of our walls. We …
September – October, 2004: Breaking ground, foundation. I started visiting the building site every few days to monitor progress. It was easy to swing by after dropping Allie off at school. Thursday, September 23, 2004 I stopped by to check on things. Not much had started yet other than the storm fencing was finished. Friday, …
Making the decision to build our house on Pfefferkorn Road. A confluence of factors sparked our decision to leave our house at Paddington Court and build a new home on Pfefferkorn Road. With some of the bonuses I earned in 2000 and 2001, we paid off our Paddington mortgage which seemed like a reasonable thing …
I’m not sure what we did for July 4, but Betsy sent along these photos of the Embreys visiting the beach in North Carolina, so they are accounted for. As evidence of the fact I was playing tennis, here’s a trophy I won for 4.0 Men’s Doubles from the Columbia Association’s Bastille Day tournament. I …