Siding was our next official goal, but the side sewer permit expiration notice got us excited to finish something and be done with it. Ha!

A significant portion of the side sewer work was inspected and passed, but FINAL inspection can’t happen until the exterior horizontal surfaces are up to final grade. This means all underground work like footing drains, gutter drains, irrigation (which has nothing to do with our permit but is nevertheless underground and needing to morph around this project) need to be completed and then all the gravel we intend to put out there on our future patio needs to be in place.

Coincidentally, the folks at City Light also want final grade by the new electrical drop in order to move our power to the new location, so although this underground work wasn’t first on our list, it does have to get done for other things that we are excited about to happen.

Our temporary water delivery post.

How the water gets to the temporary water delivery post.

One of our fancy new valve boxes.

Truthfully, we have been using a temporary system to get water out to the irrigation and hose bibs in the yard, and getting that dialed in in its permanent incarnation IS kind of exciting, especially as we seem to be headed for another unusually warm spring and summer.

Ready for the Orca Plant Sale next weekend!