I've been negligent in getting photos on the blog. Although my parents saw the work site last week, our family in Iowa has been clamoring for photos and we have yet to deliver.
But first, an update on the status of the project. The house was demolished on May 19. It came down amazingly fast - when we showed up at 10am, we had a house and when we got home from work at 6om, we had a big pile of rubble. Seriously.
As you can see from the pictures above, Mark and I took a stab a the demo ourselves, which proved both slow and painful (I hit my ankle with the sledghammer when trying to swing it toward the wall!).
Back to May 19 - the remainder of the week included dozens of trips to and from the dump/recycling center to offload the housing materials and foundation. Despite a few setbacks - the big purple excavator, dubbed "Barney", went kaput on day 3 of the project - progress was made, albeit slower than expected.
By last week, excavation efforts were underway. Because the property's soil is primarily sand (we dug our fence's post holes with a shop vac, if that gives you an idea of how sandy it is!), it proved more difficult than expected. So... there is a theme here. Everything takes longer than expected!
Our concrete guy came yesterday and is, as I write, busily working to build the structure for the foundation. Sides poured next week, basement slab the following week, hopefully.
More soon!
Showed up at 8:10am with a book, expecting to wait a while for the show to begin - this is what I saw instead. Holy cool! 
Joe the concrete dude
