Sunday, October 4, 2009

Digging the basement

Today and yesterday (the weekend), James hired a fellow who is quite expert at excavating, to help dig the basement. Weldon is his name. The guy is amazing; at the speed he digs, rotates the excavater to dump the dirt, and rotates back for the next shovel-full, I'm amazed he isn't dizzy (reminds me of the spinny rides at the fair last month!). James will be cleaning up the mess for the next 2 days.

This is a picture of Katie (wearing a bathrobe for warmth, it is 60 degrees out on this fine Northwest fall day) standing in the future basement, pointing to the east wall. It's a pretty amazing piece of excavating. You can see the scrapes from the excavator behind her, it's very hard stuff.

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