Day One

My four year old and my two year old boys have set up dining room chairs to watch the excavator be lowered from the flatbed truck. How is my new kindergartner going to focus with all of this exciting construction! I think we'll make construction a part of our studies: trucks, types of soil, trees, rock, basic geometry etc. 

So many trees came down. Three of my kids mourned the "death" of Theo, the giant oak. 


Here is one of the tallest pine trees that we had. All of these needles on the ground sure made the area fragrant!

I assume that the Intimidator (below) will be used to make wood chips tomorrow. Free mulch?

The plan is this: tomorrow the drain field is replaced. We'll see if they can get it done in one day. Then our current deck and the room built over it (by previous owners) will be dismantled. An electrician needs to come to move our phone line and take care of some minor details. I suppose the footings for the new addition will be next or will it be the bathrooms who are going to be updated? Don't know. We'll find out.