Baby Madison

Welcome Baby Madison Pietzold!!!

Our niece was born to Jacob and Jamie on October 25th, 2006.

She is now three weeks old and is busy growing. ...and eating, and crying, and sleeping, and sleeping, mostly sleeping ...A very cute healthy Baby!

Post and Beam

Well on Tuesday this week we had our post and beam done. As you can see, our sunken living room in the front of the picture and off in the distance you can see Pietzold Mountain. The wind has been blowing so hard that I have had to put the plastic back on the mountain three times now. The last time we added gravel bags tied down with rope and the wind still blew it off. I have now climbed Pietzold Mountain several times and now offer guided tours. We have great views of other parts of Sandy from there that you would never see at the base of the mountain, like way down the street and over the fence into our neighbors yard. I am waiting for a clear night because the stars are so much brighter when your that much farther up in elevation.

We had to drain our lake and pool because we were afraid the kids would sneak down and jump off of Pietzold Mountain and it really wasn't that deep. So no more playing in the free pool.

modern day jousting

This is how the modern day jousting is done. You go to Home Depot and pick up eight 20ft. 3 inch ABS pipe and strap it to your vehicle. This didn't work so good with the MR2 I had last year so I upgraded to a truck. The pipe must then stick at least 5ft in front of the vehicle. You then just drive around and just talk about modern day jousting like its the new in thing with any one you stop and talk to. Its a great conversation piece.

Lake Front home

Well we have always wanted to live at the base a mountain. And that is where we are building our house at the base of Pietzold Mountain. I am covering it so people won't line up to ski on it while we are away at work.

We have always also wanted a Lake side house and it looks like God brought us that as well. Be careful what you pray for. :)

And one more thing we have always wanted was an indoor swimming pool, and it looks like we have that as well.

Well as you can see we have had a very wet November. We hope that changes soon.

Foundation

Here is the footing after it was poured. This is just great weather we had for doing this.

















Now the foundation walls go up on to the foundation. They set the walls on top of the footing














This was the friendly pump trunk that pumped the cement way up in the air and over to our forms for us.
















Here is the final product the next day. The start of our new home.

Footing

From the top of Pietzold Mountain the cars look like toys.


You always need a good footing in any house so here are some pictures of our houses footing.