And while we were doing that there arrived...
The entire house was packed like a puzzle into one truck. here Robin on the panels) and Terry (in the skidloader) are unloading the panels and sorting them (the letters and numbers correspond to labels on the engineer's drawings), while Julie and I finished the last row of decking. Be careful! Poor Julie stepped on an unsecured short piece of subfloor and went straight down--very unsettling! Fortunately, nothing was broken.
Then Terry used the loader to push dirt back into the ditch around the house, while we set up for the build. Having a solid earth surface to work from while we got started on the first floor walls was important for safety and efficiency. This took the day.
