The Landscape, It is A-Changing

Some digging around the house, putting a face on the garage wall, filling in around the garage, and the delivery of materials - all have contributed to a new look as the pile of dirt slowly diminishes in size. 

There was a wall of dirt at the end of the West Annex.  It is now shoveled away and either lays in a new pile of dirt to the right of the picture, or has been made part of a new 'roadway' over a ditch with a culvert pipe.  This area will enable the framers to have scaffolding and a work area just outside the building for assembling the West wall.














Bill and Carol have been diligently working at closing in the garage wall with insulation and plywood. At some later time, stucco will be applied.  The entry door is ordered.  We have the window.





















This shows the back of the garage and how the dirt has partially filled the hole.






















Looking from the hill behind the garage, you can see both how the retaining wall is partially buried, and how the pile of dirt in the field beyond the garage has been chewed away by the excavating equipment.

This side of the garage has yet to be filled in with dirt at least in this picture. Today's project was filling it in;  I just didn't get a more up-to-date picture.  Rest assured, the pile of dirt is now smaller than this picture depicts.









We are very excited.  The I-joists (and other materials) are to be delivered tomorrow (Thursday).  The framers will be here to install the North wall (at least partially) and the West wall starting on Monday, if not this Friday.  The second floor is scheduled for assembly on Saturday 14 April.  And Mario and his crew of concrete workers are scheduled to come Monday thereafter to start putting the panels and rebar on. I will say it again.  WE ARE VERY EXCITED.  We hope we haven't forgotten something.  And we hope everything goes well.