The long weekend provided us some time to get some serious work done on the homesite; Nor did our contractors get a break either. Saturday started with light showers, perfect for burning brush. It was a pain to get the fire lit, but we had our giant brushpile going by 10:30 AM. Loralee tended the fire, while I cut more trees for the drainage ditch. By 11:30, the weather broke, and we spent the rest of the day working under clear blue skies and temperatures around 70-- A perfect summer day!
We had hoped to see the plumber on Friday or Saturday-- he needs to lay both the sewage pipe and the basement radiant system so we can pour the foundation slab this week. Right now, getting that slab done on time is our biggest risk factor; Old School just wrapped up another big project in Kirby, so hopefully we should see more resources coming our way over the next week. It won't take them long to get the deck up on the house, and we'll need that done by the 9th to hit our raising date.
I headed back over on Sunday (Lor had the Green Mountain Run for BMA), and cut out the two remaining trees earmarked by the electric company. I also cut out some small stuff near our field bridge-- Brent will help us out by excavating the silt from the upper end, hopefully preserving the bridge. At some point, I need to look into why that has silted up as much as it has. I would like to find a long-term solution to that problem.
Oh, another note: Brent dug a hole in the southwest corner of the property to bury some stumps and immediately hit heavy clay soil and water. Someday, it could be a good area for a pond... Someday...
So, for this week, I hope to see the following:
- Pour the foundation slab
- Install power pole (Wednesday?)
- Run electric up from pole
- Start work on decking
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