Foundation is in

Our foundation was done on June 28th. It took about an hour , hour & a half. They were here about 3 hours though because the truck got stuck. We used Superior Walls for our foundation.

Here they come...

& here they're stuck!

Bobcat to the rescue! Luckily our excavator had dropped it off early in the morning & was on standby just in case this happened. The plan had been to dig our or fill in not to tow but that's how it turned out.

Prepping the hole...

These are concrete walls swinging over my house!

I decided the front wasn't the best view so I moved to the back...

We had siding up until they came, we're not totally trashy! We removed some of it for ease of placement & the rest of building. It will be going back on in a couple of months.

All set. (view from end of driveway looking left)

Is that a little patch of grass I still see??

I took more pictures but they are all pretty similar...walls swinging through the sky then going into the hole. Next update will be beginning to build.

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Excavation...

So I'm a little behind on the house updating.

Excavation began the week of June 14th.

Bye oak tree...

This is the top half of the huge rock that was right where we needed to put the foundation...

the other half...(the picture doesn't really show it so good but I have pictures of it once it was finally removed)

The hole(with gravel fill), which actually is a good location for a swimming pool.

What used to be our front lawn & this was before the other trucks came.

More to come!

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The tree killers came today :-(

So sad.

We're adding an extension to our house, whoever built it really didn't situate it well so the only place we can add the extension is where one of our big oak trees happens to be.

Up he goes...

We have a lot of trees on our property so we decided to have the tree cut limb by limb so that it wouldn't take down too many surrounding ones as it came down.

This is one of the limbs which sure didn't look this big when it was up there!

All done & waiting for the excavators, sniff sniff.

I will say it was pretty interesting to watch & the limbs that were coming down were as big as small trees. Hubby has already cut down about a dozen small ones but this one hurt a little bit.
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I happened to be reading this post at Heavenly Homemakers just before I made lunch today so I decided to snap a few pictures & do my kitchen tour. This is what I call the middle pictures since we've done some work on it. When we moved in 2 years ago it looked like this-
Here are the pictures I took today -

(above) this view is from the end of my kitchen, to the right is a window & the dog's feeding area, behind me is a door leading to the porch, to the left are stairs going down to the family room.
The pantry is next to the fridge (forgot to open it) on the floor I keep paper towels, soda & my convection oven. The first shelf has my blender & bread machine. I then have another 3 or 4 shelves where I keep all my food stuffs. On the 2 top shelves I have my toaster, hand mixer, deep fryer, extra ice cube trays & some stainless pots & pans in case the power goes out & I need to cok on the grill or the wood stove.


The cabinets above & below my oven are where I keep all my baking supplies & ingredients, cookie sheets, cake pans, mixing bowls, etc.

In the skinny cabinets next to my oven - the top one is for spices, the bottom has oils, vinegars, soy sauce, stuff like that. I keep stuff I use everday on the counter, wine, salt, pepper, etc.

You can't see it but between my dishrack & fridge is my Kitcheaid which is always plugged in & ready to go!
Our fridge is white & the other appliances 1970 almond. The fridge conked out on us like the first week we lived here, luckily we had the white one which was going to be our storage/backup. I wat the rest of the appliances to be white as well one of these days.

This picture is with my back to the window. In that cabinet I keep my cookbooks, the drawer is for bread & chips, the bottom is for hardly used stuff like serving platters.

The below picture is just to show the door & window as well as doggies food container; it used to be tucked between the wall & the cabinet but the bigger my belly gets the harder it's getting for me to reach over. I came home one night to see hubby set it on top of a 5 gallon plaster bucket in the open & it's much easier now :-)


Our walls are like a creamy beige color, I have no idea of the name & it's funny cause I was looking for the paint cards this morning & I have no idea where they are!
So there's my kitchen which will one day have lighter cabinets & a wood floor :-)