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Keep the pics comming, now the fun start

I Sure will post more pics i should have some this afternoon.

Well they stayed and worked in the rain but thank god it didn't rain too much.

Well we got some rare weather here in southwest Louisiana it has been sleeting all night and people are freaking out LOL. We will be delayed for a few days while this all blows over. They say down here if you don't like the weather just wait 5 minutes and it will change. Its 25 degrees now but will be 60 tomorrow.

Well it looks like were gonna have round 2 of sleet and snow. I can't believe this is going to happen twice that has to be a record for south Louisiana.

Well the sleet has ended and should be thawed out today of course it will be to wet to work for a few days. I had someone message me about my awning being to weak to hold a little snow or sleet and that i should brace it up. Well we had a lot of sleet and the awning made it just fine. I live in Louisiana so we don't build things to hold snow because we just don't get any.

Well the ice has passed now were getting a lot of rain. I was hoping to have the slab poured this week but i don't think it will happen. The power company will have power run to the property in the next 2 weeks if the weather will hold off.

Well finally got the sand up on the hill so hopefully the can spread the sand and start digging the footers and get the plumbing in then pour some concrete.

Here is a little pond video turn up your sound and you can hear the frogs. They are suppose to pour the house slab Thursday.

Thanks for the updates, if all goes well you might get the house dried in before late spring.

The power company showed up today and put the pole in they will trench from here to my property tomorrow and hopefully get it all done.

wicked....always love the picture updates
your project is coming right along.

we are doing some trenching at our place today.
those ditch-witch trenchers are not cheap to rent..
riding ditch witch w/trailer is close to $375 a day!

Trencher Feb17, 2014

Thanks ZEP, I am having the utility company doing all the trenching because it's wet and there will be a ton of roots so it wont be easy.LOL

They started digging the footers today hopefully plumbing tomorrow then pour Thursday. Here are some pics. I was leaving the site and snapped a pic of a deer.

Well the utility company made it about 2/3 of the way they should finish up tomorrow.

Well power is all done and were ready for concrete but its 100% chance of rain tomorrow.LOL We got a new pour date for next Tuesday here a pic from today they were putting in the rebar.

Looking good!!

It won't be long now before the nail guns get a work out.

Well were still waiting to pour concrete, this rain is crazy. It rains every other day maybe Thursday if i am lucky lol.

I really wish you could send it West. We'd be happy to take all we can get.

The area counties have chipped in and will pay $50K/month for the next six months to some firm that does cloud seeding. It might be a waste, but the situation is getting desperate out here. As of March 1st, the clarified waste water will do directly back to the raw water supply. Something like 8M gallons a day will stay in the area mudholes, oops, lakes.

Anyway, good luck with getting started again!

Mobilus i wish i could send it your way cause i have had enough of it.
We got the power turned on today for the temp pole it only took a year, LOL

Well it looks like tomorrow is gonna be the pour day finally. The rain has let up enough for us to pour before the next round of showers.

wicked did the power company charge more to bury the power line? when we had ours done it was a certain price to "string it" to the pole and a much higher price to have them place it underground. I wish ours was underground like yours, but if i remember correctly it was a pretty pricey option.

Yeah they charged me to bury the line the over head would have been free but i had to go underground because of the land owner we had to cross. The line coming in on my dads was 2600 and they had to add a transformer on his property to jump the voltage up to 7620 so i would have enough power on my end which was 800 feet away. The green box has another transformer that drops in to 220 on my property. So we had a lot of stuff going on. Total i had to pay was 4200.00 and 2000.00 of that was for trenching and the pipe. I thought about doing it myself but i am glad i didn't because it took them a while to get it trenched.

i dont blame ya wicked.
buried is so much better
although ya get used to the over-head.
i may have them come back out once
we get caught up and bury ours.
next time we rent a trencher
i suppose we could do the trenching.
maybe it would be a lot cheaper if
the trench was already in place

keep the pics coming
love that sandy soil
you probably dont see to much mud
we have really bad mud