Basement...Day 1

On May 5th we started digging the basement for the house.  Dean Bitner arrived bright and early with hyis backhoe to start digging away.  He also took out all the stumps from the tons of trees that we have taken down over then last couple weeks.  Things went pretty good and the pictures say more than I ever could.

That is a lot of stumps!

Dean our digger in white.



The hole on the property where we are going to put the basement.



The pond.

Another line of stumps.

The look from about my kitchen window.

It's here...YAY!  Coleton loves it already.

Unloading.

First bucket...



Let the fun begin!




First stumps out.



The kids were so excited to see the equipment working.

Stumps piling up.

Wow!

They see to be everywhere.

And someof them were huge.

Shaking off hte extra dirt.

Another stump.

Starting to dig the basement.



Eric moving the stumps to the burn pile.



Eric and Dean looking for the stakes to mark out the corners of the house.

Aubrey in the start of the basement.

Getting bigger...



And bigger.




And the end of day one.