A Teensy Update

No, we still don’t have concrete. Although it is VERY tentatively in the schedule for the tomorrow… (I’m not getting my hopes up, just in case.)

We did get our first bill yesterday however. Which is exciting in a weird way – again, it’s something tangible. But it does mean that we will have to start shelling out some moolah for the first time! The bill is for the excavation, and it actually turned out to be almost $2000 below our estimate! Yay! We really had no idea what to expect because you just never know if you will hit rock in the first 5 minutes, or if you will get relatively lucky, as we did. So our estimate was pretty high. But that is already savings on total cost that we can count!

I can’t wait to get it all in my spreadsheet.

In other news, until yesterday evening it apparently looked as if we were building a pond instead of a house, a little. I didn’t go see it but we had a good amount of standing water in the basement hole, both from the storms the past few days, and apparently a little from ground water seeping in. A went out yesterday evening and pumped out the water though – so all is good. There was almost a foot of water in one corner so it’s a good thing that is out! I think it is still a muddy mess, but it would have been much worse if a whole foot of water was allowed to sit there indefinitely.

And that’s all there is to report on that…

We did get Yoshi his summer haircut. He looks a TON smaller since all of his double layer coat is gone, and he feels much better. He’s is full of orneriness every day now instead of just being hot. He is a little embarrassed though – he keeps looking at himself as if to say ‘what the heck happened here?!’

He doesn’t spend too much time worrying over it though – too much havoc to wreak and not enough time…