Layout and Excavation begins!

Whoo-hoo!  Giraffe personnel are on-site and work has officially begun in September 2014!  The first step was to do the layout and see exactly where the house would sit.

With the initial layout done, we gathered our family for a ground-breaking celebration.  Linda wrote a lovely poem for the occasion.

Shortly thereafter, we had a big hole in the ground!  The sub-contractor who did this for us was hard to deal with, and didn't listen to our site concerns or follow our agreed-upon plan.  But he got the hole  and footing trenches right, anyway.

With the compacted stone footers that would hold our superior wall foundation system.