And now the hole has something in it...

Septic tank was delivered and installed this morning.

Photo credit: David Willemsen - Innovative Homes

More digging...

We now own even more holes in the ground!

This one we believe will eventually be home to the septic tank system.

They have done some more digging down near the gate, and spread gravel - this is going to be guest parking for the PARTIES we have when it's all done!

The driveway has also been cleaned up and had gravel added.

As has the main building site... but wait! What's this???

There's our house - finished already! (Yes, we did scale down a little - and I traded in the roadster for something with a little more pick-up ;-))

But check out the view from the site tonight - it's gonna be awesome!

And of course here's the obligatory fixed position shot from the gate post.

And here's a video to get back at Kane....

Wow! It really begins!

So, while posting the images from yesterday - unbeknownst to us, the digging actually began today. We got up there after work to find the digger driver still hard at work while it was still fine.

Here are a few photos too.

And some pics taken Friday evening after a little bit more had been dug (and Pete was looking sexy :-)

The view from the gimp-pit.

Awww, isn't it cute ,it's like the big yellow cable-finder is cuddling the little one.

Pete looking very excited about the whole thing. He's dancing for joy... on the inside.

Our friendly digger driver Greg, finding us some nice boulders for landscaping. And digging the foundations for the house. But mostly finding us boulders. mmmm-hmm.

We have to keep Pete behind a locked gate at all times as he is hazardous to the public.

And when he sees what I have done to this post, he'll become hazardous to me...

We're getting close now!

So - five months in and we are oh-so-close to actually getting something solid underway. Wednesday the 21st of March was scheduled as the day excavation would begin for the basement level, so duly we were there bright and early to document the event... Except it was raining! Doh!

So - the site is marked out, the digger is on site, and now we just have to wait for the weather to cooperate - oh, and for the local planning authority to give us the permission to do more than just dig too!

Still - nice to see workmen on the site at last!