The construction is official

In the world of home building, you just don't amount to anything until you get the official status symbol. Is this a permit? No. It is a port-a-john. Even with 700,000 pounds of wall installed, it just didn't feel "started' until today when the pretty orange toilet appeared.



For the past two days, we have had a dump truck show up about every 15 minutes, from 9:00 until 4:30. The crane just keeps filling them up and they keep hauling the dirt off to some mysterious place. That's a LOT of dirt and there's a lot more that needs to go. It's work digging a house into the side of a mountain.