Wednesday, July 23, 2008

First day progress

Today, we broke ground:



That's Bob the builder on the left, Jon the foundation contractor (and a neighbor of ours), and me wielding the shovel. I didn't make much of a dent in the ground as we are now well into the dry season and the ground is as hard as a rock! John's helper Larry took the picture.




Here is Jon with his backhoe making the first real dent in the ground.

And this is the first hole; we only had to go down about 12" to hit firm clay (the lighter color in the bottom of the hole):



At the end of the first day, we had a sizeable hole in the ground:




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