The house next door...or how to NOT build a house

[jdurand]

Today their construction work smells really good.

[Toolmaker51]

Today their construction work smells really good.

I guess someone will say it; it's about time!

[jdurand]

A dirt truck showed up and now they're pounding again. Sounds/feels like a helicopter landing outside the office door. Pans rattling in the kitchen.

[jdurand]

Just a quick update on where the Pit is at. They were pounding more dirt today. So much pounding!

[Toolmaker51]

Just a quick update on where the Pit is at. They were pounding more dirt today. So much pounding!

No, not first backfill of earth previously removed. Unaware dirt has migratory tendencies. This keeps up, house is a bunker with soil earthworks.
But that's a lovely still life, inside the cyclone fence.

[jdurand]

No, not first backfill of earth previously removed. Unaware dirt has migratory tendencies. This keeps up, house is a bunker with soil earthworks.
But that's a lovely still life, inside the cyclone fence.

The owners were there over the weekend, maybe the dirt saw them and ran away.

Still pounding.

[jdurand]

Yesterday in The Pit they were jack hammering something and this morning they took away the Bobcat. Then everybody left.

So, no work today but they left the lid open on their trash bin so I snapped a shot.

Looks like the front door is over next to the engine lift steel.

[Frank S]

Haven't been many updates lately was thinking you may have gone to Russia to check on your own house

[jdurand]

They've been working under the blue tarps, so not much to see. Pounding in more dirt, mariachi music, hammering, more pounding, jack hammer... nothing much visible happening.

[jdurand]

On our new house, we found out we have to stay in California until July 3rd so we get a huge tax exemption on selling this old house. Two neighbors and the contractor of The Pit have all expressed interest in it. We'd favor the neighbors as the contractor said he'd just tear this down for another pit.

At the new house they said we have a cat, the guys have been feeding one since they started. Maybe it will wander off when they finish and before we get there.

New house pictures here:
https://durandinterstellar.com/photos/Our_New_Home/

And for anyone interested, here's a drive through town from my dash camera in July 2018. I had one person ask how I could stand to drive there, there are PITS on the sides of the road without guard rails. I said, "don't drive into the pit"

https://durandinterstellar.com/photo...ugh%20Town.mp4