Follow along as I take the reader through the home-construction hand ringer, as we build our new home in St. Croix. From the permitting; the footings, concrete floors, bond and collar beams, cement block walls and pressure treated rafter lumber. To the exposed cypress roof decking; the cistern, rainwater collection system and solar collectors to make domestic hot water. Through the entire building process, to the last of the elastomeric roof coatings, the landscaping and more....
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The machine you see is a back hoe, operated by Joe Listrade, Joe has a brother living in Magnolia, Massachusetts, an itsy bitsy town sandwiched in the Cape Anne town of Gloucester, the oldest fishing port in New England. My ancestors came ashore in Gloucester, in 1846 or so, originally from England and Ireland.
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