Starting to finish the garage level. Hope to get the timber framer started this week. Got some snow this week (winter is coming)!

Thanks alot to my brother Jeff for helping get the 24ft 2x12's up on the deck.

Finally starting to look like something. Installed the main beam today. Renee became the reach fork truck driver. Will be framing the rest of the garage level this week.

I've been a bit slow on updating but that is good news since we have been busy. We now have a foundation with walls!! Plan to get the concrete slab inside the garage poured next week. Should be backfilling this weekend.

Footers are in and now the crew is forming the walls. Will take them about a week to complete. Expect to have the walls poured by the weekend.

Finally some progress. Redesign is compete and approved by county Excavation is mostly complete. Concrete contractor to start on Monday or Tuesday. Weather is holding hot and mostly dry.

More water and mud slide problems are causing a delay. We are not comfortable with the safety of the situation so we are going to take a step back and move our addition 6 ft to the west. This will make the excavation easy from here out and will also improve the long term drainage issues. Of course every change costs $. Hot tub is looking iffy.

We have been struggling with the excavation part of the project. We have run into quite a bit of water seepage which has been causing the dirt to sluff off into our work area. Lots of mud as well. I think we have cut the bank back far enough now and added a plywood barrier for the dirt to fall against. Also had to cut our real big tree down, something we did not want to do. Fortunately it fell the direction we wanted it to.