So, yesterday I bunked out of work (sorry everyone in my office) so that i could be on site to see the digger arrive an start creating the base for our new home. As you will see, the morning started off very foggy but luckily the digger was a nice bright yellow colour so we couldn’t lose him.  Very obliging neighbours let us use their gate/ driveway so that the 12 tonne yellow creative monster could come up the front of the section / hill rather than going round 2 on our poor already destroyed driveway.

And with that – the work began.  The digger very nicely dug our the flaxes that were doing so well – but now in the way and two magnola’s trees that we have resurrected twice now from the brink of near death.  Here’s hoping that their sudden eviction from their home hasn’t finally tipped them over the edge.

By the time I returned to the section at just on 3:00pm the digger had finished the retaining wall excavation, done all the site scrape, scraped off the top layer on the front of the hill and then pushed all the remaining excess over the front so that we could crib a little more space on the western end where we needed it.

I’m told that the digger with the big auger (spelling??) drill bit was coming back today to drill the holes for the posts for the retaining wall so tomorrow will see us go back out there for a look see.  I also understand that the guys who are going to be responsible for the rib-raft floor pad were also planning to be on site today to start their bit.

The framing has been ordered and booked to arrive in 3 weeks!!!   Wow!!

So i guess that we’ll just be finishing the clean up from the permit and pad party then to go straight into a framing/ roof shout hahahaha.