Footers Poured

On Thursday the concrete crew was out and poured the footers. They had them laid out and inspected all in the same day. Looked more like an artifact excavation dig than anything, but still amazed at how fast these guys work.


It is amazing the precision and speed these guys work with...



While the garage being on this side of the house saved a lot of digging depth...several good chunks of root system from the right side of the 70 yr old cottonwood got "backhoed" - so hopefully it is not a fatal blow. Tree guy told me saving grace may be that the roots typically support the branches directly above them - and there nearly no branches above this area as they have all been trimmed back.

The house up the block from us in its final stages....it is very similar in style to what our house should appear like (arts/crafts, tapered beams, etc)...we are shooting for a more historic sage color though.