Progress

After a very wet and very busy spring (our last blog entry was in March!) we have been at it when work schedules allow. Keeping after the "prairie" took a weekend. Most of the trees survived the first winter (our spruce from Christmas looks iffy, and the dogwoods got a bit chewed up). And we've been leveling and hand cutting the foundation details, footer walls, central support piers, that sort of thing. We've made quite a bit of progress, having just a few hours here and there to get after it.

This is how it looks tonight. You can see the beginnings of the forms for the central pads, and the edging of the footer wall. Both are down to frost depth. The forms will be built up starting this weekend. They'll be higher in the upper left, where the grade is lowest, although we're filling some of that in w/ dirt from the trench. The upper right is cleanly cut, running toward the lower right of the photo. The nearest footer can't be seen in the foreground but is also cut to depth. Soon...concrete!