Moving right along - I better get moving.

It has been just over a week since the framing work was started on our home and the end of this phase is approaching quickly.  The contractor feels all the basic framing will have been completed by Monday evening.

While there is still much to be done before the house is complete we are pretty excited to see things moving so fast.  If all goes as planned we will be moving in less than two months.  Then all the work will really begin.  We will have to get a fence in pretty quickly or our dog will be hating live because she will need to be put on a chain when she goes outside (The deer that frequent the property will has be hating life because the dog is going to go crazy.)  Then there is the landscaping.  Yes, a big task all in its self.  This yard is much larger than our current yard and we have a lot of opportunities as we lay thing out.

In any case we will have to have the basic landscaping in before winter sets in.  The builder has negotiated with the city to give us six months after we close on the house to have the front side yards landscaped.  (I know where my time is going to be spent for most of the summer.)  In the top left photo you can see that the back yard is large ( For this picture I am standing on the back corner of the property.)  We will most likely have to get some fill dirt hauled in to raise the back corner up. Other than that the back yard has a very gentle slope to it as seem in the photo on the bottom left.