Archive | May 2013

5/29/13

Today they found a huge rock. Bigger on all sides than our average dining room table that just couldn’t be moved. So they had to go and get a big jack hammer to break it up and haul it away. So  we lost a little time in the digging process and now there is a nice big thunder storm overhead, but in general it was a good day. 

5/28/13

There were several guys at the dig site today and they were giving my dad shit about how big the basement is. How they have never dug a basement so large, and they wondered if it were an apartment complex. They asked how much rent would be… It is a large house! But if you consider that they are moving half a mountain just to get a flat surface, that has to be part of it. Right?!
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Time lapse of first week

This is the first week of digging and the delivery of the first semi of ICF blocks!

5/25/13

On Saturday we got the first of 3 semi-trucks full of ICF (insulated concrete form) blocks delivered to a hill overlooking a pasture and hills in picturesque South Dakota. Views of rolling hills, horses, deer, wild turkey and the occasional mountain lion will be a change from the “city” life.
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And so it begins…