Dirt, Dirt and More Dirt

Today was another day of dirt work. We went to the house site on my lunch and checked out the progress. It takes alot of time to pack the pad and alot of work. So far so good.

Dirt smells GOOD!

Yesterday was a very big day for us. We signed the intern loan paper and broke ground almost at the same time. The dozer started pushing dirt about 8:30 yesterday morning and the guy worked until almost 4:30pm. We were very impressed with the job he is doing. His company I believe is called Robert's Dozing and I would recommend him. Only bad thing was that he found a rattlesnake. This was after he had ran over it. This will make our 3rd one that we have killed or found dead. The guy was so nice that he made sure he buried it so I wouldn't have to see it again. Matt told him how scared I am of snakes.

Matt spent most of his day yesterday at the house site watching. When I asked him what he was doing out there he said "Just watching and smelling the dirt. Dirt smells GOOD." I have a sneaky feeling he was wishing he was the one on the dozer. He took Patricia out after school and they walked and talked about all the things they are intending on planting. They are so much alike in that aspect. I'll download some pictures tonight.

Patricia is ready

I thought this was a great picture of Patricia on the dozer. You can see the huge clouds in the background. The one thing about our house site is that the sky is never ending.

Waiting on rain

I took this photo earlier today and as you can tell it is rainy. The stakes you can see are the actual corners of the house. Matt had a great time looking over the dozer or loader as he explained to me. Hopefully tomorrow will bring better weather.

Rain, Rain Go Away

It has not rained in Texas for over two and half months. The bulldozer shows up to do work and it starts raining. Go figure! This week is slotted to be a very big week for us on the house building. On Monday we get the final approval from the Court and on Tuesday we close on the interm loan. Dirt work is suppose to be starting but like I said earlier rain is proably going to be a problem. My builder tells me we should be dried in by Christmas. I don't see how but I'll still pray about it. Hopefully some pics will be coming soon.

Baby Steps

Matt, Patricia and I welcome you to our blog. I decided to do this to allow all our friends and family to keep up with our house building, to welcome your comments and of course words of encouragement. I want to start this blog with a little bit of history. In August 2004 we purchased the orginal 24.508 acres of land with the hope of someday building a home on it. Matt went off to Iraq and as many of you know came home with a injured back. To say the least our hopes and dreams changed somewhat. At first we were just going to sell the whole place because he couldn't take care of the farming type chores anymore. But little by little God revealed to us we could still have our dream, just maybe not the way we had planned but the way he had planned all along.

Enough for history, here is where we are as of today. We have buyers for two lots of our land. We are keeping the 3 tract. The process of selling the lots has been harder than we had planned for but we are almost there. We go for our final plat approval on November 26, 2007 and we are excited. Today we met with the builder out at the land and decided how far to set the house from the road. It was funny to watch Patricia walk off where her room will be and sit down in what will be her room. She was pretending she was looking out her window. I plan to take some pictures tommorrow of the land before they start construction. I hope you will enjoy this blog as we go. We thought for many of you who are hundreds of miles away it will let you be and see whats going on in our world.

Bobbie