So, a lot has been happening on Applewood Lane this week...

Here are photographs, and a few films, to help you see the wonderful unfolding of it all, and hopefully share in our excitement...

The foundation guys, with Tim as their foreman, worked until 9:00 to get Dad's basement floor poured before the house arrived...This is Tim, walking the perimeter of what will be Dad's workshop...

A huge crane arrived before hand, here, the crew from American Homes worked to get the side stabilizers positioned for a safe "craning on" of his house, as they call it. 

We had a lot of rain overnight on Tuesday, so it made conditions a little frenzied to begin with...the large 18 wheeler that brought Dad's house from the factory in Pennsylvania actually got stuck at the American Homes location down the road from us...but, they hauled it out in about an hour...and, in it came...

You can see it comes all wrapped to protect the windows and the siding during transport...

At first it looked like Dad had a 60' house, but in order to cut down on the transportation costs, the house is actually transported as one long unit, and cut in half on-site! You can see that, without the paper, Dad has chosen a sage green siding, the shutters are actually a lovely brown color...it looks fabulous with his maple trees...

Dad had a fabulous day watching it all unfold. He is sitting on his soon-to-be next door neighbor's sidewalk, on a chair they provided for his added comfort, it was a little cool, but the clouds gave way to a gorgeous autumn day...

It is all blue sky and puffy clouds as the front of the house is craned into place...

Once in position, the crew unhook the cables from the home...

It looks like a flat box, but the magic continued...the roof is actually pre-constructed and lifted, and the crew does on-site carpentry on the floor of his second floor to stabilize the roof joists...

 Here was the view down Applewood Lane when everyone took a break for lunch...

And here is what the roof looked like at 3:30 in the afternoon, you can see that the back of the roof is secured and the front is being prepared. There is a curve in this portion of the front of the roof to allow rainwater to be routed around his dormer windows...

 And here comes dormer number one...as a cloud returned with shade..

But the sun came out for dormer one to find it's position...hurray!

The second dormer was lowered on at dusk...

More images and news to come, but...for now...all is well on Applewood Lane...