Rocked up and ready to burn

Hey all,
Well we haven't gotten around to posting anything for quite a while again, but there's been a lot going on so I thought I had better get back to it to fill you all in.
My folks came to visit this past week, mom on Wednesday, and dad late on Friday night, which was great. Mom headed back on Tuesday, but dad is able to stay until Saturday. It's been great to share the progress with them, and having some new energy and excitement has been a great help. Mom got to spend a good amount of time with Abrahm which he loved and dad has been helping out with anything that needs doing around the yurt.
We managed to finish the sheet rocking today which is a great relief, the last piece went on the ceiling in the bathroom this evening just before packing up for the day. If that wasn't exciting enough, we also managed to get the stove installed today and finish the chimney! Now we just need to get a piece or two of sheet metal for a heat shield and we will be ready to warm the place up. Big progress! Also in the past few days we've managed to get the front door in, and the on demand water heater is mounted, though not hooked up. We'll have to see how the weather is in the next few days, but the plan is to get going on the front steps.
Leslie is of course excelling in her studies, especially the clinical areas where I think she is definitely the star, and Abrahm is enjoying the bounty of fall. He comes over to the yurt most days after daycare, and promptly heads out to scavenge for apples along our driveway. He loves finding and eating apples, and there are many to choose from along the way down the drive. He is also quite fond of our recent acquisition. He loves anything related to tractors and every time he sees ours he gets a big smile and wants to get right on.
As you can see from the photos the stove is indeed black with a green pipe before it exits the yurt through a nice shiny insulated pipe. The color scheme is courtesy of scavenged pipe from Leslie's folks garage. Can't be to choosy. You can also see that dad had a chance to get well acquainted with our wonderful rocky soil while digging the hole for the supports for the chimney. And yes we did manage to extract him.
Well time to get ready for bed. Better sign off and crawl upstairs.