The footers have been poured, the crawlspace dug out, and tomorrow they start laying the foundation. Today the 3 selected trees are going to be removed. It was supposed to be done Tuesday or Wednesday, but it was a bit too breezy! Today is a perfectly calm day. The sun is shining and the sky is a brilliant blue! I hope to get up to the farm on Friday to see the progress. I haven't been there since Sunday. Lance will be up there today cutting up trees after they are on the ground. Saving a bit of money that way. Yay!
The saw dust will be scooped up as best we can to put in the compost pile. The large limbs will be put in the beagle starting pen. The logs will be cut up to use as fire wood and the teeny little sticks and branches are going to be used as kindling for bon fires and such. Nothing will be wasted. One good thing about cutting the trees down now is these 3 particular trees haven't leafed out as of yet. At least we won't have that mess to clean up too.
As for the house, I wrote the second big check this morning and Lance is going to deliver it to the contractor today. It was strange to write a check that big! Kinda scary, too. I will try to get some more pictures to post as construction progresses. I want to get a picture of one of the footers as well. Why? Well, Buddy, the guy who tore the house down and poured the concrete for the footers, found one of Lliam's Star Wars tokens in the debris and stuck it in the top of a footer. Then while Lliam and Lance were up there checking things out, Lliam found one of the rocks from his collection (that was lost) and stuck it in there too. I thought it would be neat to have a photograph for Lliam to have later in life.
When I was up there on Sunday, I found one of my strappy sandals in the dirt - I wonder if they could put that in the concrete too - lol.
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