The past few days have been the source of high drama and low humor around here. The person who was doing the site preparation (dirt work) came back the next day and dug a trench that is around 130' long, 24" wide, and 24"deep so we would be able to run the water and electric lines to the building site. I just spoke with the NEW site engineer (the old one apparently quit) and found out that they can't put the water and electric in the same trench, even if they are both in separate enclosing PVC pipe channels. I wish someone had mentioned that a couple of hundred dollars ago!
The foundation was dug and the concrete poured for the foundation this afternoon. When I arrived home from work after a hard day grading freshman comp analysis, research, argument, and literary evaluations I found a cement truck stuck in my yard up to its rear axles. This was not as amusing as it sounds. I now have to go out in my yard and pick up a couple of wheelbarrows full of gravel from where they sent yet ANOTHER cement truck to drag the first one out of the hole it had created and they needed traction to do so.
The sub-lieutenant for the site supervisor showed up a few minutes ago and apparently HE will be the one actually supervising the work crews...and they're all from Arkansas, not Tulsa, where we wrote the contracts and signed the deal. The house, however, has to meet Tulsa building codes...many of which don't exist out here on the river. So, I have to have someone come in and trench twice more. Once for the water, and the other for the propane. Great jiminy jumped up jehosephats!
I'm still looking for some place to hang the website for the construction pictures, so stay posted...the best, or at least weirdest, is yet to come!
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You could always set up a Flickr account for photos. Flickr is free and lets you do all kinds of neat tagging.
Construction is always a pain, but it is so awesome that you two are building a house.
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