Over the last week my friend Len has been using his excavator to dig the hole for the new house. Topsoil is deep in these parts and all that ground had to be moved out of the way. We were not yet in a super rush and he could do the digging after his other work and on weekends. It worked for us. He dug up and moved well over a thousand cubic yards of dirt. It is piled on two sides of the old house in massive piles and will be used to shape the grounds when the new house is done. Tonight the last scoop of dirt came out of the massive hole.

Tomorrow the engineer will come to take a look and let us know if we can start to fill the hole back in. We won't be filling it back in with dirt of course but rather proper aggregates. It will all be packed into place with a large mechanical roller as per the engineer's instructions.

We may just get the building permit tomorrow as well. Here's hoping...

-grampa dan