Everybody needs a good foundation...

The foundation is ready for slab work.











Plumbing being put in the slab.












Plumbing being put in the slab part two.











Slab, pre-rebar

Concrete getting pumped in.

Concrete retaining wall goes up and the concrete pump comes for a visit. It will fill it all in with lovely concrete. Have I used the word concrete enough times? If the pump can make it up the driveway, so can you.

House pad and next stop lawn seed.

Man, what a cool piece of equipment. Even better, you can really see the house pad that our little place will sit on. All that dynamite paid off!

Well, these days we're ordering lawn seed. Exciting stuff, I know.

Driveway: the sequel.

I just had to get the truck pic in with the beautiful rainbow. Awww what a pretty driveway. Check out the rad hairpin turn. It's going to be a blast.

Driveway is the star of this photo shoot.

The driveway goes up the left side of the house and curves. It isn't too steep considering that we're on the side of a hill. There will be room to pull off and park on one section of it. You know, if you are too chicken to drive up to our house in the winter. Then you'll be able to hike up through the ice and snow the rest of the way.

We call this House site view.

1. Lot view from south at road
2. House site view from south
3. House site
4. House site view from north

Titles as sent from the builder. More exposition in a few.

Move over Ram-hoe, it's dynamite

The rock-hoe did not work on the vein of rock that is situated exactly where we planned to have the back wall of our house. So, today they brought in the TNT. Yep, they used dynamite to break up that rock. Tomorrow, they will cart away the broken up pieces. We picked a tough plot of land, that's for sure.