Despite a fair amount of needed rain this past week, there has been good progress out at our future homestead!
This week the outside foundation for the house was completed. I aspect next week will involve filling in some of the inside area of the house and digging the support wall footings. If we are lucky, maybe some of the plumbing. There is more rain in the forecast for Wed and Thurs. The house will be on a slab for the passive solar thermal mass, but I convinced our builder to raise it up off the ground some. It will still be close to the ground, but at least not right at ground level.
This is a preview of our view from our kitchen window, and pretty much every room at the front of the house. Of course the front yard needs some work.
This weekend's project was spreading 6 cubic yards of gravel in our future garage. Good-bye dusty dirt floor. An upcoming project will be re-doing those stairs, but we need to wait until we have some electricity.
The kids and Karen did a great job loading the gravel, I just stood around taking pictures!
The reward for our hard days work....
The reward for our hard days work....
Sunday was mostly a day of rest. We built a small fire and had a bunch of friends and some of our future neighbors over for a big weiner roast. The weather was perfect, and it was nice to sit back and relax out there for a change.
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