Tonight we made a visit out to our new development as well as another one to check out siding and trim colors before we make our final selections. Then we of course had to make a stop at our lot to check things out. For now we have a foundation and they have back-filled things a bit. Framing will not begin for a couple more weeks because there are a couple houses in front of ours schedule wise. Unfortunately a few weeks ago we had them halt construction because we are still dealing with our old house and the buyers needing extra paperwork to get their financing through. Long story short, we signed a land contract with them so they could move into our old house and pay us until their financing comes through, which should be by the end of the year. Not exactly an ideal situation, but at least we won't be paying our old mortgage, rent and interest payments on a construction loan all at the same time! We are still praying their financing goes through quicker, but for now at least the situation is a bit better. So, with construction on hold until last week other houses were scheduled to be framed instead of ours. We at least could now see the foundation without the forms on it and get an idea of the new space. While we were there we heard the train horn blow so we were excited to hear just how loud the train actually was. To our surprise our neighbors lawn tractor was louder than the train! We noticed it was a VERY long train and as it went by we found out why - it was the Ringling Brothers Circus train! From what we could tell it was all the passenger cars and the circus equipment, no animals. Joshua was very excited about the circus train going through his new backyard!
The picture above is of Joshua waving from his bedroom!
The basement
Joshua running out of the garage.
A view of the front.And a little video clip of the circus train in our backyard! All you can see in the video is the movement of the train because there are so many trees lining the backyard, but it gives a perspective to how close the train is.
2 comments:
OH my - Nicholas is going to be very jealous to find out you have a train running through your backyard. He is already jealous of how close it runs to Velocity's new location on the 29th street and that Paul gets to hear and see it all the time.
I lived next to a train for over a year and when I say live, I mean that our rental house was within 100 feet of the tracks. I grew to love the sound it made and found it relaxing and even lulled me to sleep at times :)
How exciting to have new Byron Township neighbors (and voters!)!!
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