Breaking Ground
We broke ground at the property today.
This morning I got up at 6:45 am, packed breakfast and lunch, Hadley's school bag and two sets of spare clothing for the kids (as I knew they would want to play in the huge sand pile).
Then I made a tea, and loaded up two sleepy children in their PJ's to head to the property.
When we got there we met up with Victor the chief bulldozer operator from London Excavators and Mike from Pine Ridge Timber-frame (our main contractor).
For hours the kids played in the sand while the dozer cleared the area for the house. Mike and both kids made many sand castles at the top of the sand pile.
At noon, I took Hadley to school and came back with Easton to meet up with Janoah from Geo-Logic to figure out exactly how to lay the Granular B (sand).
The day was stopped when we found out the excavator that was due to arrive from another site wouldn't start. So, London Excavators brought in another one from another site but it didn't arrive until 4 pm.
After swimming lessons tonight we went back and showed Brian all the progress from the day. Brian and I each held a shovel in the ground and took photos.
And so it begins...