Perks of hiring Italian plumbers

We received 2 bottles of vintage "carefree plumbing" vino. The perks of hiring Italian plumbers!

Site clean up

I like a clean workspace - seems to make everyone move more quickly and efficiently on site.  Sam was on site for a full day today to work on hay and more leveling of earth.

Wet mess

The rain has created a really wet, sticky mess.  The mud is unbelievable and has really slowed down the backfill.  Horatio has had to bring his back how over to try and move the top layer of mud a bit to put some dry earth on top, otherwise the going is too tough with the small bobcat.

Sam is onsite doing a lot of cleanup and prep of the inside of the house to prepare for arrival of stone and more hay to protect the footings (probably next week).

Tony was in to partially fix the electrical conduit on the neighbours side (it will be completely fixed when the backfill is done) and hopefully Pinewood will come by to reattach the gas line for the neighbours pool heater.

Weather, weather

We've been on edge all day here at project central - the rain has been unbelievable - somebody check the record books.  We've had some further erosion of soil along the north and south side, but nothing too out of hand.  Hopefully things hold up ok until tomorrow.

If the weather cooperates (please!) we can get the footings set up tomorrow, then rebar, inspect and pour on Thursday.  Fingers crossed - I'm normally optimistic, but this weather has me a bit down.

Ok, I'm back up - it will be sunny tomorrow!

Rainy Day

We had things set up to mark and set the footing forms today, but the heavy rains have nixed that.  We will try again tomorrow.  Who thought that rain in late November would slow us down?