water woes

We're still chugging along. The foundation has been mostly backfilled and the driveway has been roughed in. The well has been drilled and even though we went down to 700 feet, we only have 10gpm, which is a little disappointing. As long as the well recharges quickly when they do the drawdown test, we should still have enough water to do the geothermal heat system. The site guys placed some huge rocks for us to terrace the slope going toward the backyard...and Ryan is still itching to get on the frame. Unitil came out and set the pole and the trench and conduit was burried from the pole to the house to carry the electrical and other wires underground.

We brough Brody out to the site on Saturday. The "tractors" were a big hit!

They re-graded the front yard to maximize the view, but also to take the extra material to use as fill around the house so we didn't need to buy as much.

The well guys thought they'd be done in 2 days...three days later they were still drilling!

The back yard is going to end up being bigger and flatter than we originally thought. We're really excited about this! Perfect for a swing set!

View of the "house" from the back yard. Lots of walk-out basement so Ryan can easily carry wood and tools in and out of his workshop.

Ry helped to set the rocks for the terraced walls - if only we had this machine to do the heavy lifting in G-town we would have saved our backs!

These two rocks came out of the ground as one rock, but when Tim, the excavator operator, set it on the ground it cracked right down the middle. So the flat faces of these actually fit together...if you could ever move them again - they're HUGE!

Lots of action on the site when I stopped by during lunch. Ryan and I could hardly hear each other over the noise of the equipment and the well rig. The little person there is me, taking it all in!

Ryan took this shot from on top of one of the giant loam piles of the end of our driveway and the little bit of silt fence that I made him install!