Today was overcast, but the weather held out and we now have footings for our new house.  It was fun watching the workers do their thing.....

 It's been 14 days of behind the scene progress.  Water figured out.  Electric figured out, which will require the removal of many trees ($$) and of course running the lines to the house ($$$) and a four to six week wait for Callaway Electric to be able to come out and do the work.

Every time we have turned around we have gotten rain.  Usually not a  lot, but just enough to keep Bruce from finishing digging the foundation and put the footings in.  Imagine our surprise when, even though we got a good soaking yesterday, workers were able to start framing for the footings   Oh happy day!

All things considered, we are hoping to get into the new house sometime next Spring.  In the meantime we are happy to know we will have  one more Thanksgiving, Bake Day, and Christmas here.  Probably even Easter, and get togethers in between.  We aren't finished making memories in  this house yet!  Until next time.  

Big machinery / baby steps

Our Vision - in black and white

 

The past few days we have watched with trepidation the dozer operator move dirt around  At one point I was scared we would end up with foundation walls jutting out of the ground, rather than a nice gradual step down from the porch we envisioned.  We talked about moving the house down the hill further but the dozer operator, Carson, convinced us all would be good.  We gave him the go ahead to do his thing.

Today we lunched with dear friends and then came  home to this:  

Jim is standing in  the bedroom 

  

Footings, walls, floor, fill next.  Lots of rain in the forecast.  This house will get built on God's time.