So, this week, we’ve been up to a few new things. We’ve framed in the wall between the office and the guest room to accommodate the new fireplace. This morning, we lifted the (very heavy) fireplace into place, and it looks great. (Ultimately, this will be bricked in on one side and probably tiled on the other.)

We’ve also started framing the battery house, which is just behind the storage container. The walls are wood framed. We did the back wall first, and since it will be up against the container, we had to finish it before we stood it up. The other three walls will be stucco’d like the house, but we just covered the back wall with corrugated metal.

The slab for the main house and the new stoops are done. And the lettuces we’re growing in the greenhouse are looking good. We’ve had some problems with leaf-eating worms (those big green ones) but not too bad.

Brad saw the bobkittens this week (we hadn’t seen them for a couple weeks) and says they have grown quite a bit. We also saw two large buck deer in the area near the oaks.

The weather has definitely cooled off quite a bit (and we’ve had good, hard rain twice…so much for it never raining in October here). It’s been as cold as the 50s in the mornings, generally warming up to the 80s during the day. It’s much more pleasant to work in these temperatures. I’m even starting to remember how cold it was last winter.