A Matter of L & D

Okay. I've got some updating to do.

Since the last posting about the land, a few more things have gone on. The last post was about the driveway, and how we were now able to drive onto the land, and the fact that they emptied our flooded dugout onto my brother's land. Oh, and about the way my dad "tore up" the driveway. Well, some big truck or machine or something did a much better job of tearing up the driveway than my dad did. I unfortunately don't have any pictures of the driveway being ripped up, but believe me, it's pretty bad. We're talking 1-foot deep ruts at the approach. Oh well. I guess we shouldn't really be complaining. At least that tells us that something's been happening.

Anyway, we had gone there a few times after they were finished draining the "pool" and one of those times we met the guy that was doing the concrete work. He was there one night digging a hole where the water would drain into, instead of sitting in the basement area. He told us that he would have to let it dry for a bit before he could dig down any further. We told him we were fine with that, and that we wanted it done right, and that we weren't in any REAL rush. He told us that the builder had told him that we were riding him, wanting things to get moving faster...lol. We figure that Lyle is just trying to keep this guy on track because he has his own guys that have to get stuff done as well. We laughed and told him that we weren't in a rush by any means (I may be, but not to the point that I would be rushing a builder or anything like that).

We decided that we were wasting way to much gas driving out to the land every night after work, just to see if anything had been done. That lasted for maybe 1 day. We went out to the land Monday this week, and nothing had happened since we talked to that guy. Tuesday we didn't end up going out there (that's the 1 day that we decided that we were wasting gas...). Wednesday curiousity got the best of us so we travelled out to see what, if anything, had happened. We had gone home first and decided that we would take Sneakers for a ride too.

When we got there, the only thing that was different was that there was a machine sitting beside the hole, and some 2x10s and little stakes beside it. It was still the same hole that we had seen every other time.

Last night (Thursday) we stopped by Curtis and Crystal's place to pick up an Aloette order, and ended up staying there talking for a while, so by the time we started to head home, it was already 8:15 or so. Ryan asked me if we should go by the land, and I told him that we could just go out there Friday night. I started looking through some flyers, and looked up just in time to see us blow by our turn to go home. So out to the land we went.

We got there and it didn't look like anything had been done, although the tractor that was in one spot the night before, was moved into a different spot. We walked down our now torn up driveway, got closer to the hole...and realized that they had already poured the footings! And of course, because we were there at about 8:45 or so, the sun was starting to set, so any pictures I took looked like they were taken at about midnight.

I was really excited. When I asked Ryan if he was excited, and this was the look I got:

We can't wait to get out there after work today, if only to take better pictures of what yesterday's work produced.

Here's a shot of what looking out our living room windows at sunset would look like...the last one would be what it would look like if we had a stalker.