We start to Dig...The first week of August

Lon, our neighbor, came by with his backhoe to dig the trenches for the rubble foundation. The first day, we leveled the site. The next day we painted in the dimensions of the strawbale addition. Orange paint works great.

Then Lon started to dig...

And dig.
And more digging...

I had originally planned to do the trenches by hand. Yeah right... The sad thing is that I had a 22 year old kid come over the other day and finish digging the trenches where we had water lines and electrical lines. Slothful, I am...