4.14.2014

I'm still totally amazed at the soil here. After all the snow and a recent rainy night, temps were close to 80 degrees today and the ground was dry enough that Jim got the equipment down into the foundation.

One of the last things Jim did in the fall was put extra dirt on the areas where the footers will go just for extra weight and compacting purposes.  So today, he moved all that extra dirt out of the foundation area.

He was even able to use the excavator and expand the foundation area some more.  He has decided to add a frost wall most of the way around just for extra precaution so he needed a little more room in some areas.

 

Then he cleaned everything up.  So in one day's work, he got the foundation area cleaned up and in good shape!  Obviously still lots of work to be done.  We have to get down there and take some elevation measurements, but then it will be digging down for the footers.

 

Definitely a good day's work!  Jim said it was so fun working this time - the last time he was in the foundation digging, the ground was frozen and so was he!