The foundation has now been poured, YAY! The took off the molds yesterday, so they haven't done any of the sealing etc yet. There was a big pile of dirt out front, so I couldn't get the best shot, o well, it is just poured concrete, nothing real exciting.


I have been trying to take a picture from the same angle every time, but of course the first bunch will be facing down into a hole, so later the will not match up. It should make a good slide show for the outside once all is done though.
We also have a neighbor being built as well. As you can see in the bottom photo, it looks rather close. Well yes it is, it is what we get for living in "copycat land" as Gabbi calls it. I hope they aren't smelly.
I found a neat thing today though. I walked over to take the photos, as our apartment is so close, and there is a paved path heading into the woods toward out house from a road on the way. I decided to see where it lead. Well the paved part isn't very long, but they have a cedar chip path that winds through the little tree'd valley back there. It ends up coming out at a paved path about 5 doors down from where we are. It is a really nice , but short, walk back there. It also cut about 5 minutes off my walk to take the photos. Lots of birds, and I can imagine it will be a really pretty walk in the summer with leaves on the trees. There is a little marsh area back there as well, with a raised boardwalk going through it, heading to the neighboring housing area.
I nabbed an older satellite photo, and drew on where the path goes.

The red box at the top being where the house will be. Walking there I had my trusty
Sansa Clip on, listening to some tunes. When I got there, I took it off and took some photos. It is amazing how quiet the neighborhood is, at least at the moment. We are so used to living in noisy apartments, that I found the lack of sound rather shocking. The constant drone of cars driving, and sirens blaring (we live right by a Fire Station AND Ambulance station) becomes just background noise. Funny, as I write this the Fire Trucks just left the station blaring away. Hopefully we get used to the silence. Naw , our smelly neighbors will probably end up noisy too.