McCLOSKEY CORNER

The roof, the roof, the roof is on… well, it’s not on fire, but our builder is. We’re a week a head of schedule.

Yesterday we met our evil twins. (Or perhaps we’re their evil twins… ?) They’re a young couple without kids but with three cats. I...

Our house has been under construction for a month now, and we’ve got a week’s worth of photos to show you at once! We really have to...

We’ll let the photos speak for themselves. The first was taken Friday morning, and the last this afternoon. The walls going up in more...

Today at lunch, the forms had been removed from our foundation. By the end of the day, we had walls! Our garden court neighbor Aaron...

Our concrete pour happened this morning, rather than Monday as previously mentioned. Apparently concrete contractors, like the rest of...

This afternoon, Timothy and I went on a walk through what remains of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. The former entrance was on...

Upon returning from our Christmas trip to see my family in Abilene, we were relieved to find out that our foundation had not been poured...

Or, more accurately, our soon-to-be-neighbors (and Mueller) are in the New York Times!

Looking over across Phase II, the old airport tower has a lighted “Noel” sign. Happy holidays!

From this past Saturday until the house is complete, Timothy and I plan to take the same two photos every day to show the progress of...

While Elizabeth was on vacation in Houston, I was left to attend to the beginning stage of construction, namely placement of the form...

My parents and their two little dogs came down to Austin for a visit the weekend before Thanksgiving. We had a great time, and showed...

Phase I of residential construction is at the southwest corner of the old Mueller airport, near the intersection of E. 38 1/2 St. and...

Residential construction is moving along rapidly at Mueller. Although David Weekley got a later start than Meritage Homes, they’re...

We had a few trick-or-treaters this evening, the most memorable of which were a pair of penguins. I’m sure we’ll have an overabundance...

Well, I must say the idea definitely looked better on paper. Tonight we made a House-o-Lantern: Have we gone too far?

Update: The photos below now include images of the materials themselves, in addition to the computer renderings. We’ve finalized our...

The names of the streets at Mueller “honor a diverse cross-section of Austin leaders and legends symbolizing the city’s great history and...