How Don managed to thread THIS particular needle, I have no idea, but couldn't resist getting a picture of it (note the hummingbird feeder - this activity did not interrupt THEIR activities one bit):
Footers completed! (and looking quite lovely, I might add)
Somewhere in all this, Sean found time to carve out a lower parking spot (with the help of a very large machine) and begin a rock retaining wall (with the help of a much smaller wife):
Then it was time to pick up the insulated concrete forms (ICFs), which we'd use to build our stem walls - we got some good looks on the highway THAT day!
It seemed some days like all we did was stack rocks, dig out rocks, move rocks, swear at rocks, tell rocks that if they didn't grow up and get a job, they were outta here - oh, wait. Not that last one. But let me tell you, there are really a whole lot of rocks here in the Rocky Mountains, most especially in our little 8,000 square feet of the Rocky Mountains. But they do make a lovely retaining wall, no?
It seemed some days like all we did was stack rocks, dig out rocks, move rocks, swear at rocks, tell rocks that if they didn't grow up and get a job, they were outta here - oh, wait. Not that last one. But let me tell you, there are really a whole lot of rocks here in the Rocky Mountains, most especially in our little 8,000 square feet of the Rocky Mountains. But they do make a lovely retaining wall, no?
After the ICFs were in place, it really started looking like something we might eventually live in... someday!
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And now, on to July - here's a little preview: big piles of dirt, a second attempt to backfill, lots of railroad ties and a birthday party. Intrigued?
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