CONSIDER IT...EXCAVATED!!!!!

hi freedom fans!

this weekend was a monumental step in FBD's fall 2009 project - we dug all 20+ footing holes, graded the front yard and replanted a rosebush! along with finding artifacts (and by artifacts, we mean bricks, remnants of past flower beds and more bricks), we figured out that there are atleast 4 different types of soils and clays in gladys' and mary's yard. plus, we got to use an AWESOME two-person auger which was super exciting (check out the extreme spinning action in pictures below...thank you united rentals!) we had to haul a TON of soil from the front to back yard, and we probably should have brought a wheelbarrow from the beginning, but it was all part of the process. with rain looming overhead, we decided to wait to finish with the concrete footings. it doesn't look like much now (since we covered over all of our hard work with "sod") but this is a huge task to keep us on schedule.

ANYWAY. this week we'll be pouring the concrete, generously donated by allied concrete. then this saturday will be putting in the posts and working on the framework! hopefully the rain doesn't fill in all 24" of these giant, gaping holes!