Putting a lid on it...

Vault lid before concrete.


Vault lid after concrete.


Garage floor (note rising sun).


Back patio.

Today Betty Baker and her crew finished up the concrete work for this year. Before sunrise, the concrete trucks began arriving, bringing concrete to pour the vault lid, the garage floor, and the patio outside the entrance to the daylight basement. This is a real milestone for us, as we can now begin framing in the basement and erecting the basement walls and building the garage. Finally the house will begin to take shape. The basement framing package, basement walls, and garage package are scheduled to arrive on August 20.


The window package for the house arrived this afternoon. We will store it in the shop for the time being. After carefully checking them in, we discovered that there was one window missing. Susan will follow up with Pella in the morning.

In addition to everything else, our friend Harvey Church arrived with his bulldozer to dig the pit for our geothermal heat source coils. More on that in future posts.