Excavation Begins

For three months we have been cutting down trees, clearing brush, and preparing roads to our building site.  We have had delays due to weather, first the excessive heat and dryness of mid-summer and more recently the onset of autumn rains.  We have had to alter our site plan several times due to uncertainties about where we can locate things such as the septic system and the well and we have had our share of equipment breakdowns to delay us further.  But now we are ready to commence the excavation of the first building site.  We have a lot of dirt to move.  We don't know exactly how long it will take and we are hoping that we don't encounter some obstacle like a huge rock we can't move.  It will take hundreds of bucketfuls of dirt but the process has begun.

The first scoop