Survey says

Rain last night made for a muddy walk this morning.
We met with our builder and a survey team to mark placement of the house.
There's still grading work to do and trees to haul away, but the clearing is basically done.
Driveway is still very steep, but hopefully they can build up a lot with what will be dug out for the basement.

Drying out

A couple of days of sunshine have allowed the lot to dry a bit over the weekend.  Below are some additional shots now that we were able to walk the lot.  This upcoming week should bring the removal of the cut trees and build-up of the driveway.

View from the top of the driveway:


View of the pond coming down the driveway:


Future house location:


View of the cul-de-sac from the future house location:


A video of the walk down the driveway:

Rain rain go away

Weather today prohibited work. We drove by on the way home from the airport to see for ourselves...

Clearing starts

Actual work started Monday due to some rain.
We are in FL and won't get home until tomorrow, but our builder sent this shot of initial clearing.

Groundbreaking developments

We break ground tomorrow.

Clearing trees along what will be the driveway and where the house will go.
Grading and moving dirt around to build up the driveway base (it's a pretty steep drop down from the street right now) and begin digging down to basement grade.

Here's what it looked like at the end of March:


Here's the exterior style we loved and wanted to emulate:


And what the house is supposed to look like when we're done:


It's been about 18 months since we seriously got busy looking for land.
About 15 months since we found the lot; just over a year since we put in an offer (but it took forever to close).

September will bring 1 full year from closing on the land and finally hiring an architect.

October, it's supposed to be done.

It feels a little unreal right now, but we'll see how it goes!