For all you readers that are as anxious as I am for this project to be finished, here's today's progress.

Visibly, it doesn't seem like alot of progress was made by the solo man here today, but there was some.

The window in the basement has been cut out of the wood. (it had previously been framed in, now it's a wide open space.)

The little spikey things have been knocked off the exterior of the back basement wall, which will ultimately be covered up with dirt....

Still a few more hours of worktime for the crew today but today's progress includes

the completion of the septic system - we are now awaiting for an inspector to come from the State to give it the A-OK before it can be covered up.

The walkout basement is currently a fall out basement. It's got about a foot drop off when you walk out the door - I'm not quite sure why as I wasn't home when the guy was done but dh suspects that they must be planning on putting down some dirt...

Not too awfully much to report today.

Septic digging continues today - the hole is much much much bigger now - materials for the leachfield arrived so I'm sure it'll continue tomorrow.

The excavator/bulldozer man was working at getting more of the yard dug down to the proper grade and now I have huge piles of sand everywhere, which my kids are loving!!

The prep work is beginning for the chimney to be put in. (It's going right next to the closet in ds#2's...

Today's progress isn't very picture exciting, so I didn't get the camera out.

They've got part of the septic system done already..... the main tank is in, but it still needs to have the pipes (or whatever you call them) attached to run from the house to the tank. My yard is dug up and there's big dirt piles all over the place. I hope that they finish up quickly because it's challenging to keep the dirt monger children of mine off of the dirt piles!!

The...

I've got some pics to share.... I'll post more pics as things get finished.

Here's my kitchen from 2 angles..






I'm so excited. Right now we have a galley style kitchen that is about 7 1/2 feet wide by 14 feet long, with very little counter space!!!

Having a dishwasher will be awesome as I HATE DETEST HATE HATE HATE washing dishes!! Having counter space when I'm cooking will be...