David & Melissa's Wedding

We had a wonderful time this past week in Colorado celebrating David and Melissa's wedding. It was held in Devil's Thumb Ranch, just outside of Winterpark, CO and the location was perfect. The weather was ideal: warm days and cool evenings. Besides the wedding activities, we golfed, hiked, visited with relatives and newfound friends. It was great getting to know Melissa's family and we look forward to seeing them again. We will be sending out a CD-ROM with all of our pictures.

Footings & Poured Walls

We returned home on Friday evening, July 24, and went to the lot on Saturday morning. There was good progress! We should be out of town more often. The footings and 80% of the walls have been poured. We still need small footings for the deck and the front porch area. This will be done once the waterproofing, drainage system, and backfilling are completed. Our neighbors were very impressed by the amount of hard work from this crew. This was nice to hear. We are looking forward to going to Minnesota in two weeks and coming back to see all of the progress!!

Footings Update

This has been a rather slow week for the company putting in the footers. I was with the contractor on Tuesday morning when he met with the people doing the work. The excavator did not clear all of the rock where the footings are to be placed. They are doing most of the rock breaking by using a pick axe and lots of manual labor. There is one ledge of rock that still remains in the way. Mom and I will take our tools down this weekend and see if we can break it up. This should save hours of labor.

We look forward to leaving for David's wedding on Tuesday. Maybe when we come back we will see some progress.

July 4th Golf Tournament

Mom and I played in the July 4th Mixed Golf Tournament today. Based on our team handicap, we were assigned to the fourth flight. There were three other flights of golfers, comprising 32 teams.

The results are in: We won our flight !! Mom sunk a 35 foot putt on our last hole to give us a birdie and that was the stroke we needed to move into first.

Here are some pictures of us at the first hole. The couple we played with is Gloria and Alan Wasserman. A great couple from the New Jersey area who we met last fall.

Footings Started

The footings were started this week. I think the main contractor hired the turtle crew. They work about 2-3 hours a day, but always have time for a long lunch hour. The forms are suppose to be ready for concrete early next week.