6/6/13 footings
This is a time lapse of the footings being poured.
6/4/13 forms
Here is a time lapse of the forms being built for the footings.
Time lapse of second week
This is the second week of time lapse video. We plan on changing the placement of the camera for the next few weeks since all the work will be in the basement hole that you can’t quite see from here. Laying out the footings should start tomorrow!
Road
I finally remembered to take a picture of the road work today. There is a very large dip in the natural landscape and they have been filling it in with the large rocks from the house dig. I thought they had gotten it pretty level when I was up there a few days ago. They had even leveled it out and it looked like it had been driven over and flattened out by the big dump truck wheels. But, when I went by yesterday I saw that a whole new set of mounds of rock had been added on top of the leveled area. It looks like it will be a fantastic road when it is all done. I’ll try and keep adding pictures now that I remembered! ~ Elli
6/1/13
Today the guys came to start on footings. There are 8 footings inside for load bearing walls and also the outside wall of the house to be done. The footings will be 20 inches wide and 10 inches deep.
When I drove up this morning they were all standing around talking and one of the guys said “I don’t know” and another man answered “I think it is big enough” … I am sure they know what they are doing, but seeing a half a dozen guys standing in a 15 foot deep hole that is 60 some feet wide wondering if it is big enough make me giggle. ~ Elli
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?!
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.
And so it begins…
Country Castle 
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