Finally, we get started on April 23rd, 8 days late. This series of pics shows the amount of dirt we moved to get down to the foundation level, amazing. There was an average of only 8 inches of frozen ground to remove. We were lucky this was a mild winter. Note: all of the photos on this site will open in a new browser window, if you click a link and nothing seems to happen it is not a bad link, look at your taskbar and click on the icon that is not indented.

	The embryonic beginning. Tuesday, April 24th
	You clean off that innocent grass and stuff and you find lots of mud on top of frozen ground, not permafrost though. Tuesday
	We really do have mountains here. That is Pioneer peak in the distance. Tuesday
	The beginning of a hole in the ground. First we have to remove the frozen ground. Wednesday
	The rough cut of the basement. I am standing about the grade of the basement slab. Thursday
	We are getting ready to fine grade the footers, here in Southcentral Alaska the footer depth has to be 42 inches or greater. Friday
	The backhoe is sitting in Gretchen's pool! As you can see it will be a while before she is swimming. Saturday
	The plate compactor is in the pool, the yellow tripod is in the garage and I am inside having a beer. Saturday
	The final touches on the pool. Footers get poured tomorrow or Tuesday. Helping out is our friend Aarron he showed up and grabbed a shovel. Sunday