Something Concrete

On the coldest day of the fall, my guys decided to pour the concrete slab in the basement.

And grout the cells in the masonry walls.

Yes, I do have some beautiful trees behind my house.

Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of the drunk toothless neighbor from down the street who threatened to blow up my house for hiring illegal mexicans to build it.

Luckily, after thirty minutes of me explaining to him that 'Melrose' and 'Higgins' aren't common Hispanic surnames and several USA chants, we shook hands and he offered to paint my house.

GBA y'all

Moving along...

The waterproofing and foundation drain have been installed.  You can get an idea of what the finished grade will look like.

Last week the city called me out for not have a port-a-john, threatened to 'shut me down' so...

Also, I now have electricity on site.

Orange....It's my new obsession.

Aaron and Calder sent me some new images. What do you think?

Happy Birthday

For my birthday, R.K. Higgins Construction Co. got me a basement. Although, they also gave me an invoice...

Progress

All I had to do was leave town for a week to get things going!

The Beach

I'd like to thank everyone (Jerry, Rita, Kevin, Kevin, Alex, Andrew, Sarah, Jessica, Matt, Henry, Amanda, Amaya, Martha, Tom, Jordan, Sam, Ava, Ree, and Jill) for a wonderful, relaxing week at the beach.  For those of you who missed it, I hope to see you very soon!

Fun with Dirt

After some trouble with soft soil at the back of the lot, the footings are ready to be poured! We ended up having to over excavate and put several tons of crushed stone wrapped in filter fabric beneath the footings.

I'll be very relieved to finally have something permanent in the ground.