Next thing you know, old Lance is a millionaire...or has a well.

Well, no bullblin' crude, but lots of water. I went out to the lot today on my lunch break and I noticed that there is a well on the lot! I called Thor, and it seems that they only had to go 300 feet and we have a strong flowing well. Nice! Also, they were finishing the foundation, and said that they should be finished by this evening!! Man that was fast!!! We'll go out later this week and take some pics.

A little early, but really cute! Jenny wrote and drew this all by herself!

We now have power on the lot, here is the power pole to the right of the tree (ain't she purdy?).

This pic was taken on Wednesday. I heard today from Thor that they should be done with the foundation by mid-week, and that the house should be here by the 10th of October.

OK, one more of Jenny

And lastly, here is our cute girl (pointing at her shoe for some reason) and a plug for our great contractor, Thor.

This gives you a great idea of the barrier between our lot and the road.

Another angle of that far corner. The string line is the base of the house/top of the foundation.

This is the far corner of the house (the master bath corner). The top of the board is where the top of the foundation will go. Thor is going to put a door on this corner, and give us a basement-like corner to store tools, etc.

Edge of the house (left), yard, and Jenny.

View just down the road from our lot (less than 1/2 mile). Click for bigger image. This is five pictures in one (I think).

The footers are in!

A crude but kind of accurate impression of the house on our lot (compare to the "footuns" pic below).

Shiree and Jenny behind us on the chairlift at Tweetsie Railroad.

Me and Alex on the chairlift.

Yes, we still have kids!

Kids at Tweetsie on the 5th. Sorry for only lot pics...

Corner up driveway

Same corner, looking up our driveway.

Footers or "Footuns"

View from the upper edge of our lot. You can't see the yard on the other side due to the dirt piled up quite high on the far side. The closest corner is the front right corner of the house (where you see the three stakes sticking up out of the ground.) And yes, I did have someone call them footuns (or fu-uns).

Curvy panoramic

This is a not very good panoramic of our lot where the footers of the house have been dug. No, it is not going to be a curvy house, that is just how the pictures stitched together.

The foundation's 'a comin'

View from where the house will go. The truck pulling out of the driveway delivered the rebar (is that how you spell it, or is it reebar?) for the foundation.

Busy busy

Activity on the lot today. They reassessed out lot line and cut into the hill further, moving the house a bit, giving us even more yard and more fill dirt for a flatter yard!

Septic

They put the septic in yesterday. Here is the corner, still exposed to make it easier to plum when the house comes in.

Go Ryan!

Ryan call is back to Blogging, and if you want to read some great pro Bush (Ryan's Homeboy) stuff, check it out on the link to the right or click on the words Go Ryan above.

This is a panoramic from the far edge of our lot. It is about 90 degrees from left to right of the picture. This helps you see the slope of this side of the lot. Click to enlarge.

Here is another shot from the driveway looking down the lot. The lot continues to the right behind the burn pile.

They're really making progress on our lot. Here is a picture from across the road. Great driveway and flat yard!

Here is the Kitchen. Lots of Cabinets! Very big and spacious! Yes, two bar/counter places to sit and eat. On the left behind the wall is the oven, microwave, more counters/cabinets, etc. (see the blueprint). We won't be getting the cherry cabinets, just oak. Also, no yellow!

Here is the model of our house. Our colors will be different-Sierra siding (tan/brown), red/maroon shutters, weathered wood (grey/brown) shingles.

We get the septic and building permit tomorrow and start digging the septic in the next few days.

New reinforced driveway entrance!

Another panoramic from further in the lot (kind of fuzzy)

Here is a panoramic combo pic of them clearing the lot. Click on it to see it full size. It is almost done now but we are trying to conserve gas. We'll go out on Saturday (or tomorrow).