This is what it looks like around here tonight.
The digging goes on, endless precise measurements and levelings, new tasks inserting themselves into this seemingly simple goal.
Finally, today, some forms for the footings are being built. This is a relief for Morgan after a week of complicated figuring involving drainage, sewer, slight shifts in retaining wall placement based on what was not excavated… I’m sure there is more, but it’s hard for me to keep up. Form building at last feels like construction instead of destruction.
Meanwhile, the garden grows, the flowers bloom, and summer is in full swing.
Of course we are feeling about a month behind, so we revise our hope to have the whole thing “weathered in” by the time the weather returns to just wanting the foundation and slab done in time to back-fill the holes and get rid of the dirt before the weather returns.
One foot in front of the other, and repeat!