Piles of Dirt

I would post pictures of this phenomenon online, but what would really be shown? Piles of dirt. But, to us these piles are mountains of gold, because we are officially started on our house!!! We met the builder and the grader on site today to talk a little grading strategy. Where to put dirt, where to cut brush, where to cut, where to fill. It was interesting in a "if this wasn't our house, we wouldn't care" kind of way.

The main thing is that something is being done. We thought this may be ontrack for last week, but due to the fake ice storm we had in Greenville, it was "not so fast!" The most interesting thing about the grading was the fact that they found an abandoned oil drum that someone at some point had used for heat or fuel or both. We need to find something to do with it, and we can't just take it to the landfill. They tend to frown on things with flammable liquid and vapors being dumped upon them.

Tomorrow, Lura is meeting the boring guy to talk holes. Yes, you read correctly. He's not actually boring. His job might be. We are doing a few borings in the ground to see if there are any pockets of trash or construction debris which may cause future problems with our foundation. This is a spend a little now to prevent spending a lot later kind of thing. I guess that's it for now. Concrete man is due late next week or early the following week. And after that....FRAMING!!! I know this is exciting for everyone!
Bye for now.