NOVEMBER '06

November and much of December was all about moving dirt around. We spent weeks just plucking hundreds
of bowling-ball sized rocks out of the ground and piling them up away from the site. After a while I got tired of
collecting them and decided to just start chucking them down the hill. THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF ROCKS
in the world. The are all on my lot!

Then we began building forms for concrete. First the monolithic slab for the garage, then the footings for around
the middle section of the house (kitchen/dining room).

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Junior aboard Trogdor (the "Homestar Runner inspired moniker for our hard-working tractor).

The first post holes for the South facing deck. I started here, as they were the furthest point down the hill I needed to get to get with Trogdor.

The well was drilled right away. We hit water at 350', and ran pipe to 450'.

After 2 solid weeks of scraping, and manually removing hundreds of bowling ball sized rocks, we began the first concrete forms for the garage slab.

Keeping form corners square (which would later prove futile as hundreds of pounds of wet concrete exploded this back corner of the forms).

The back wall of the garage sits two feet above the sloping hill from the front.