About that duplex going up across the street

I know I haven’t written about it in many moons, but that duplex that was supposed to be built across the street from us, is finally going up or in.

While we were at the lake on vacation those few days, when we got home, they had the foundation in, and had been making excellent progress.

Pouring cement into forms for the duplex foundation. –Sheila Murrey
Foundation on June 25th, 2026. –Sheila Murrey
By July 16th, 2026 the duplex was starting to get framed up. –Sheila Murrey
You can kind of see how large the lot is in this photo. –Sheila Murrey

You probably don’t remember what the empty lot looked like, but I shared a picture of it in my September 28th article: https://sheilamurrey.net/2024/09/28/september-28th-forgettable/

My husband is usually the ‘Gladys Kravitz’ (if you remember the reference from Bewitched), because from his music studio upstairs in our place, he has the bird’s eye view of the construction. And though it’s none of our business (of course), he lets me know (“Abner, Abner!”) when the work makes progress or stops.

And a couple weeks ago, we had all kinds of drama when the big truck came to deliver one of the modular pieces and as they began to line it up on the foundation, to their surprise, it didn’t fit! Ha! Turns out they’d put the foundation in backwards! So, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, it was determined they could bring their non-English speaking crew back and do some actual sawing (think cut-n-paste) out of the concrete and pour new where needed to make it right. Whew! I wondered who got fired over that debacle… no idea.

1/4 of the four-part modular duplex going in across the street from us. Too bad the foundation was backwards so they had to send this back to an empty parking lot to wait until the foundation could be corrected. –Sheila Murrey
All four modular pieces are in and on the foundation. –Sheila Murrey

We don’t know if the owners who are putting in the duplex have a building contractor or not, but if they didn’t before, I bet they do now! My daughter has spoken to the owners a few times, and happened to be home the day of all the drama, but she didn’t ask that question. Hopefully, after all is said and done, we’ll get to meet the homeowners and hear more about it. Since my dad was a builder, and we built the home (mom and dad’s dream house) the last five years that I was a teenager, home-building is fascinating to me.

Here’s the current stage of construction:

The roof is now on the duplex. –Sheila Murrey

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. Doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling integrating ride to better health, doing with more ease and less effort-ing, to help us find and sustain the JOY in our lives! (Sprinkling Gratitude all around while we’re at it.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

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