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Home Addition - Final Inspection Passed!
- Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 02:48 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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The fun room:


The bathroom:
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Home Addition - Construction Update 10 - almost done!
- Sunday, August 31 2008 @ 01:56 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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Our formerly lush new lawn is not looking very healthy. There is still some green in there (not apparent in the photo) but I went ahead and over-seeded with additional grass seed this weekend.

We had our kitchen patio door replaced as part of this project. We still have to paint most of our new doors:
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Home Addition - Construction Update 9
- Saturday, July 19 2008 @ 04:05 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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However, we passed some more inspections and there definitely is progress since the last update!
We have a new roof on the entire house. We chose a commercial spray-on foamy material due to the very shallow pitch of our roof. The foam adds a significant layer of insulation from the hot Florida sun. The roofers wrapped our house in plastic to keep the spray from getting on the windows. This reminded us of a scene from the movie E.T.

You can see the foam material peeking over the edge of the roofline:
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Kite Flying
- Sunday, June 22 2008 @ 10:56 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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My kite was a parafoil:

My dad flew a cool Red Baron replica:
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Home Addition - Construction Update 8
- Thursday, June 05 2008 @ 11:32 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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The crew did a really good job at this corner junction between the old house and the addition. All of the trim, old and new, will be painted with a fresh color before we are finished:
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Bike Tire Peril
- Tuesday, May 27 2008 @ 03:03 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I didn't notice until just now the terrible condition of my tires:
These are the original tires, at least 12 years old. The harder outer rubber is peeling off to reveal a much softer rubber interior. With luck, I'll make it home safely tonight.