Another big thing that happened here this week was more earth-moving. We hadn’t quite dialed in the new entryway when last we had a big machine on site, so Patrick came over on Tuesday and Wednesday to do a little land-sculpting.

Morgan and Patrick moving earth.

We’ll be building some stairs next to the house to get from the front door to the upper driveway, so that needed some accommodation. Then the funny island of land that we have inadvertently created out of what was our front yard will need rock walls to hold it together, so we had to scrape more dirt away to make room for those.

Room for stairs and rock walls.

A little more space around the entry feels good.

This work now makes it possible for us to finish the exterior of the West wall and put the last window in, put the main water line into the house where it actually goes, wall-in the closet that was our front door… the list goes on! Now that kitten achievement has been unlocked, the new goal is the all-important weatherproofing of the exterior.

This will change radically soon.