Rain Delays....

This week there were a few rain delays with the house construction.  Oh well....bound to happen.  Monday, not much happened since it was a big mud pit from the rains on Sunday.  Tuesday, they began to dig for the footers and were finished by Wednesday and it looked like this:

Too bad it POURED Wednesday night and these lovely trenches were now moats that surrounded our home.  It rained a little more on Thursday and so nothing much more got done.  On Friday morning they were shoveling out the rain and getting ready to pour concrete.  It took several hours to get all the water out, but by noon, we had passed inspection and got ready to pour concrete.  By 3:30 p.m. on Friday, it looked like this:

Here's a front view of the house.  Not much different except a few more bushes are gone.  Unfortunately we forgot to remove a porcelain yard frog who crushed remains were found under some mud.  I had him sitting peeking out from under the largest azalea in the front.  I told the guys to remove that bush since they needed to get there to pour concrete and didn't remember about Mr. Froggy until later that night.  Oh well....

Hopefully next week they will dig out the crawl space and lay the bricks for the foundation.  On a plus note, we got the pool heater hooked up and will hopefully be swimming next week!