Next week the bushes go.

When Glenn (the guy with the backhoe), comes next week to back fill the foundation, he will also take out the old overgrown bushes. I have included a couple of pictures of the bushes before they go, for comparision.

Boat Storage

I needed a space to store boats, and yard equipment. The space will be in a basement under the garage. In this picture you can see the garage area, with out the garage floor. The floor has been ordered. The floore will be three concrete planks that are 8 ft by 25 ft, when the floor is delivered, a crane will be needed to install it.

Foundation ready for backfill

The foundation is ready to be inspected and backfilled. In this picture you can see the lip on the wall where the garage floor will go.

I'm not sure how to get oil delievered.

The filler pipe for the oil is 10 ft off of the ground, and soon to be in the house.

We have a foundation.

I almost missed this shot, we were not expecting a foundation to be pored until latter this week.

We have footings

The footings have been installed. You can see the garage and some of the great room. The bedroom and bathroom is toward the lake.

My Driveway is gone.

The day after the posts for the decks were installed. Glen removed the driveway and installed a very large hole. We lost the stone wall that was at the end of the driveway. The orange marks on the dirt mark where the garage walls will go.

The posts for the decks are in.

The work started today on the foundation for the addition. While the heavy equipment was on site, Dick the builder, had the holes dug for the post that support the decks. We are planning to have a deck, a covered deck and a screen room on the lake side of the house. You can see the orange base for the posts sitting next to the stairs.

Salute to the manhole.

We held a first flush party (ode to the comode or pizza potty party) with our friends.

Building Permit Today

We first applied for the building permit in September 2004, and we were told that we needed Zoning Board approval and we needed a sewer connection. We got the Zoning Board approval in January 2005. The sewer has been connected, the manhole has a cover, and some dirt has been move in. Today I submitted an "as built" for the sewer to the town top prove we were connected, and we got the building permit.

Does this look like a croquet court?

The front yard is a little torn up. The contractor said he wood put the yard back together when he is done. I hope to have a flat area for games.

It's a missle silo

The manhole is 15 feet deep.

Brad's new manhole

We have been waiting for a year to get a manhole and now we have one of our very own.

At last progress

We have finally start to make progress. We can not start the addition until the house has been connected to the town sewer pipe. The town sewer pipe was installed in 1930 and it is 15 feet below ground and 20 feet from the lake. In the process of connecting to the sewer, I think we lost the front yard.

Nothing much happened today

The equipment arrived, workers showed up, and hay bales were put in the front yard. I left at 8:30 this morning and nothing else happened. The neighbors came over to see the progress and were disappointed.
I'm going to leave my truck in the driveway so the equipment can't be taken away.

Looking Down The Driveway

Looking down the driveway, we can see that the equipment has arrived. We have been waiting for a year for this day. The building can not begin until we are attached to the town sewer, and the work on the sewer will not start until the equipment arrives.

We are building an addition.

We are building an addition to our house. I want to share the progress that we are making as we build. Our plan is to take a 4 room house, and add a bedroom, a bathroom, a great room and a garage. I will be posting pictures of the progress.