Things are movin...

This was from Wednesday this week:
The retaining wall is gone, the lava rock salvaging was a success! It's all piled under the tree where it will be protected and remain until we're ready to use it for some landscaping.

The guys are continuing to tear down the buildings. The second building is well under way. The siding is coming off of both buildings. The roof is off the first buildings and it's just the walls left to go.

It's going away...

Last Saturday, the roofing came off, the interior walls were missing, and things were piling up outside. The air was definitely blowing through the first building.

Windows are out!

They are working on the west building first. It's amazing how quickly they work. Signs up, cabinets are out, windows are out, and there's a bunch of wood piling up in the yard!

WE'RE CLOSED!!!

We will officially start construction (or deconstruction as it may be) on Thursday morning.

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you EVERYONE for all your hard work to get us here! Yeah Community, Family, and Friends!!!!

Trailer's Up!

I'm having mixed feelings of excitement and a little disappointment.

My mouth has been watering all day today with expectations of going over to the site to pick the plums that were almost ripe two days ago.

I rode by earlier, and saw that the contractors had been out to the site again. This time, the job trailer was put into place! Things are really looking like they're getting started!

With that, they also decided to lock the fence which until today, had two places which were not yet secured where I could easily sneak in. This means no plums for me today.

Though I think the excitement of seeing it progress thoroughly outweighs the loss of plums. Hopefully they'll still be rip early next week when I get access again!

The flags are waving, the trailer is in place, it's almost ready to go!!!!

Getting Started

Fences are up, temporary power poles are in place, and paperwork is being signed!

We are almost ready to start!

We've waiting a long time for this to happen (it's been three years to the month since Richard and I attended our first meeting!). As soon as all be paperwork is signed, we'll start deconstructing the buildings.

Here's a look at our site as it stands today!