Construction is an essential activity, so says the Governor of California, the Honorable Gavin Newsom (and my new best friend). Consequently, construction on our home at Delta Coves is moving forward. Michael and I took a drive to the site on Saturday, April 11th. The last time we were there was Tuesday March 17th for a frame walkthrough with the construction foreman, Troy. The afternoon before, Contra Costa County had ordered a shelter in place for the entire county, including a shut down of all “non-essential” activities. Two days later, the Governor declared construction to be an essential activity. Three and a half weeks after that, we were anxious to see if the sheetrock was up, as it could not be put up until county inspectors signed off on the framing. Inspectors had stopped working the day we were there doing the walk through with the foreman. Troy said he would continue to work but until the inspectors signed off on the framing, not much else could be done.
We were so happy to see the progress made over the last month! Our home is part of Phase 2 and the 5 houses to the left of ours are Phase 1. It was encouraging to see fences around Phase 1 houses and front landscaping completed for the two adjacent houses. In fact, we peeked in the windows of one of them and it looks ready for occupation— floors are laid and appliances are all in! Ours may be ready for a June move-in after all! Woohoo! As I was peeking in, I also noticed the Ring doorbell was filming me. I had two immediate reactions – 1. Wow, if their Ring Doorbell is working, their house must be totally done. AND 2. Holy Crap, my face is on their record now! I hope nobody is monitoring that yet…that is no way to introduce oneself to new neighbors…”Hi, I’m Karen. I’m the person who was behaving like a Peeping Tom a couple weeks ago.” Sheesh!
The front of the house all spackled and ready for painting.
The fence is up between us and the neighbor and their front landscaping is completed.
The inside staircase is framed and the stairs are in. You can see the holes for the cables in the post.
We took a picnic lunch and sat in the doorway of the great room to enjoy pasta salad, cheese and crackers, grapes and wine!
Me enjoying a glass of white wine. That’s re-bar sticking up in front of me, it’s all over the place.
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