OK, so this is my attempt at an artsy photo of the local foliage. It was positively beautiful with blue sky earlier in the afternoon, but I thought this intensity of red still deserved some attention!
James was finishing the dirt work for the foundation this weekend. This is a picture of Katie walking between some of the dirt piles; the house/basement is to her left, and there is a huge mountain of fill dirt to her right. I can only imagine what this will look like once it starts raining; we have been SO blessed with dry weather lately. The piles of dirt are huge, at least 20-30 feet high. James had 2 friends helping today (Dave and Richard), who were SO helpful hiking up and down the dirt piles and laying down plastic. Most of what James has been trying to do this weekend is to lower the garage to the same level as the house (as of Friday the garage was at least 5 feet higher than the front porch). We would love to offer "free fill dirt", but we don't know how much we will need on site. I guess we'll have some big mud piles.
Tomorrow, Monday, was supposed to be the day we started pouring the foundation, however, the rental excavator (see photo above) broke its track (which means it is so broken that no vehicles can get past it, up to the homesite, to do any work), so the foundation guys can't get up there, since there is a piece of broken machinery in the way. We'll keep you posted...
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