Hot, Humid and Hole

Hot, humid, and the hole is being dug! The digger arrived this morning and went to work after we gave him a tour of the property and discussed the job at hand. The sewer and water will have to come up and under the brick drive, so we removed a twelve foot section of bricks (good thing it is brick otherwise we would have the added expense of laying a new section, in this case we can just re-lay the bricks when the water and sewer is laid and inspected). We took many water breaks, but nonetheless, I was a bit heat exhausted. The digger took apart the old stone shed foundation. In the northwest corner we found an old limestone hitching post! It took most of the morning and afternoon to load up the limestone, where it was dumped in a couple of piles to be reused in the future house foundation. The digger started leveling the terrain and digging the foundation. I am sure there are many more hot and humid days ahead, but today we have a hole.