Groundbreaking day and a Christmas snow!

It's been another week and progess is slow with the holidays, but it's still going. Last week, we got our building permit on Tuesday and the site prep guy was out Wednesday morning leveling off the pad where our foundation will be going here shortly. They also brought in a HUGE load of rocks for our temporary drive-way for all the big trucks to enter/exit the lot. The guy leveled the area within one inch all the way around, luckily it started out pretty flat but it's still cool that he's that good. Rob learned all about the laser surveying equipment and the guy showed him how it all worked.



Before

During

Learning about surveying

Rock Delivery

Loud noises.

All done!



Nice and flat!

We've also been searching for random appliances on sale/craigslist and spotted some beautiful double ovens over at the Sears Outlet in Carrollton, they looked brand new and were half price, so while the site prep guy was doing his thing, we went shopping. Too good of a deal to pass up. So far we've also got a Jenn-Air refrigerator and Wolf vent hood/motor from Craigslist. Still looking for a microwave, dishwasher, and a range top to complete our appliance set but we have plenty of time for that.


Double ovens and refrigerator

On Thursday, our electrician came out to set our "T-pole" for temporary electric power that all the sub-contractors will need for their tools and whatnot. Before the electric company will run power to it, the town inspector had to come out and give us our first green tag after inspection, which we got on Friday.

T-pole, fascinating...I know.

That's about it for exciting things so far. Since this week was Christmas, we haven't had luck getting the electric company to come back out and hook it up, but as soon as they do we'll have the foundation guy out to set form boards and get a bunch of inspections to make sure everything is all set correctly to pour the foundation. We'll have to get a survey done, a pre-pour inspection (by the company who engineered the foundation), an independent inspection (just in case), and the city inspection (ya know, to follow the rules). In the meantime, it snowed on Christmas and we got some fun pictures off the field cam to prove it. :)

Just starting to fall Christmas morning

And it's sticking...

Full on Christmas blizzard!

Still here, Dec 26th

Starting to melt

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and looking forward to a great new year in 2013! #1 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: BUILD A HOUSE. BOOM. HERE WE GO.