Basement walls

The weather held for a week or so, long enough to get our foundation walls poured and sit for about a week.  Basement walls are cool!

The last picture is the walls with the forms removed... and yes that is water inside our basement, it rained shortly before this pic, and the ground water had perc'd up a bit.  Yes we will have a sump pump, they are part of life in Wisconsin! 

Footers! Yeah some concrete

The next step... is footers.  Gosh it looks small from this perspective.   The fun continues, we should have walls early next week.

The fun part 
has been
watching
the kids play in 

the house as it goes along!

Additional Pictures

More pictures of our future basement with the addition of a few kids!!!

In this picture, the huge hickory

log looks like a tinker toy!

This log has been moved to its 

final location, gosh knows we

will never be able to move it 

again.  We decided to save the

largest solid portion of the tree

to maybe one day turn into a

a bench around the firepit!

Finally some action!

So, the weather has held for several days, the construction permit was finally issued and everyone seems to be on the same page

 Construction finally began.... 

topsoil being moved here

 The beginning of the basement being excavated... and

                                                         

                              
And the driveway is underway!  That is some awesome breaker rock he's dumping.  There should be no heaving in our driveway!