Breaking ground

First you need the heavy equipment. It can be done with a shovel, but we want to finish before Duncan is ready for college. So! February 5, 2007, it began. The snow and ice had to be shoveled and melted away first, then the hidden sewer line had to be dug up and unplugged.


Apparently that was the easy part. The tough part was what to do with all that water once the temperature hit 50 degrees and the ground started thawing. Dennis (Gunn Construction) worked with the heavy equipment to square off the walls, my dad shoveled snow from the back yard so it wouldn't melt and run into the construction site, and my mom swept away the water - with a broom! Let's just say, the driveway - and pretty much everything else - is now covered in mud.