Construction begins

After our builder, Paul Russell, told us he was moving to Missouri at the end of the month, we spent the weekend discussing what to do. We could go back to the Seattle builders, but Gerald was really sold on Paul. He wondered if Paul could get a shell dried in before he left. Paul thought he could. But we would have to work fast. We had the perk test done the following week. Gerald bought the tractor he always wanted. Paul took our rough sketch to his draftsman to create a set of plans. We were back at the land by the following weekend preparing a pad.

Here's what the site looked like when we got there around noon on Saturday.

It was a beautiful May day. Wildflowers were abundant.

So were the bugs. 

Gerald pointed this hat out to me in a hiking store. He laughed when I said I actually wanted to buy it. I was laughing now.

By late afternoon, it looked like were were making a swimming pool. Here's Gerald with Paul. Their heads barely peek over the top of what is to be our garage underneath the house.