In the process of building a house, or at least the process of watching a house get built, you say a lot of them. Some in anger, some in amazement, some in joy, some in confusion. We had one four letter word instance when someone took a [four letter word] on our site because the port-a-john was locked up except for workers. Joy!
Some people have asked us if our marriage is surviving this craziness. That it is such a strain on life in general that we can't possibly be getting on as usual. This has not really been the case. We still get along fine. We still talk to each other in sensible tones (or at least the same loud tones we would normally). We still say "I love you" and kiss each other. We still go out and pay bills and watch TV and all the usual stuff. For us it's more about counting down. Counting down to the day when we are out of the apartment and on to our next big adventure. As the pieces come together more, it's starting to look like something. Something familiar to us because we've already drawn it on paper. When the slab was in, we were looking forward to framing, when the framing was far along, we wanted insulation, when that went up, we want doors, and a roof, and plumbing, and appliances, and drywall. Is it impatience? Greed? A lack of happiness? Nope, just good old fashioned excitement!
Actually most of the 4-letter words we use now are DOOR, and FOAM, and WIRE, and PIPE. As you can see from the pictures, these are much more worthy of shouting out. You can do it at home while you browse.
Another word - WRAP (as in Tyvek)
Back of the house in mid-FOAM
BATH! (well, shower actually)
PIPE!
This was different 4-letter word(Oops, I put a pipe in the wrong place in the concrete floor)
