Today was a big day. The worksite went from fairly neat and organized to total chaos in about an hour. Sometimes things have to get a lot worse before they get better. Today was one of those days.

The gas company arrived to dig across the road and put in the new gas lines to the shop and the new relocated meter for the house. Our gas guy was present to run a line from the new meter to the old house and a line to the new house as well. And our excavator guy was present to dig the ditches on our property as well as do some more work on the excavation for the house. While the driveway was all torn up with multiple ditches we took the opportunity to install the electrical, cable, telephone and secutiry conduits needed for the new construction. It way mahem and pandemonium for a while but by suppertime the pipes and conduits were all in place and the ditches filled in once more. I spent an hour or so on our little tractor after everyone had gone home to spread a little gravel and make the driveway almost normal.

The big pile of broken concrete in the foreground are the remains of the front steps of the old house.

Tomorrow will be another big day. The excavator, buldozer and large dump truck will be busy hauling out the last of the non-buildable soil from the excavation. Then it is time for the soils engineer to have his say. With his blessing the filling back in with engineered gravel will begin. The surveyor will also visit in the next couple of days to exactly locate the house and survey the property for the officials. We are now days away from starting to place the footing forms at last.

It was a crazy, crazy day but exciting just the same. Tomorrow it begins once again.

-grampa dan