We Broke Ground

 The building has started.

We're building a daylight basement style house. The owner of the GC, Sheldon is holding the leveling pole and directing the digging of the foundation.

The foundation of the basement starts to become recognizable, some of the foundation form boards starting to show up and take form.

Les, directing traffic as always. Shortly after this, he took over the excavator, couldn't take any more! (just kidding).

Making a little progress.

Honestly, it is supposed to look like this.

Above is a picture Nancy took from the street above the house.

The green lawn is our neighbors. Our site is visible down below on the right side.

Our neighbor is a CPA from Shreveport, he spends summers and is a really nice guy.

A nice clear beautiful Alaska spring day.

The perk test for the septic system. Les was giving the engineer some advice as usual.

Telling fish stories.

Nothing has happened yet

The house build hasn't happened yet. So far we did a lot of shopping for basic stuff we didn't bring like: garbage cans, towels, shampoo, laundry soap.....
 
We did spend a couple of hours on the property cutting back the alder bushes to make the driveway wider so it doesn't scratch our new truck.

Finally, we were able to start the process as the ground frost receded and the roads become passable

for some of the necessary equipment.

Looking over the site and calculating the location of the walkout basement. We were using the geotech maps to figure out where the solid ground would be so we could minimize the amount of backfill needed for the foundation.

Letting the experts look over the situation, before Les weighed in:)

Assuming our positions for the summer

The view from the owners suite, such as it is now.