Good Neighbors!

I'm not sure we were voted most popular on the block today! The town came in this morning and closed off part of the road that runs in front of our new building. The town workers needed to dig up the road and bring in the water and sewer services to our property. There was still some access to Tim Horton's (you would be amazed how important that is in this town!) and our "neighbors to be" across the road and to the north of us could still get into their properties. There just wasn't any through access, nor a place for the big trucks to park on the road while their drivers run into Timmie's. We knew this was going to happen sooner or later - and we are excited it is the sooner and not the later! This afternoon we checked on the progress and Peter got a picture of "the hole". He figured it is about 12 - 14 feet down at the deepest point. They were carefully working their way around the gas line while we were there. I'm glad they were taking their time! There is validity to "city workers" working slow sometimes!





That HUGE pile of tongue and groove decking that arrived last week - you know the one that will be our soffit - needed to be moved this past Saturday. We've received about 3 inches of rain in the last number of days. Somehow that rain migrated to the nice dry spot we had picked out for this lumber. At least when the three piles were dropped off - it was a nice dry spot. With the rearranging of the lay of the land with the backfilling, we had created for us new puddle configurations. One of those puddles found it's way under the wood. Saturday morning bright and early Peter and I went over to the lot and started moving the 2 x 6 's into the building area that stayed quite dry in our recent downpours. When all was said and done, Peter confessed to me I had helped him move 6400 lineal feet of 2 x 6 's! Since then we've had three different people tell us they saw us out there working getting piggy messy in our rubberboots. I don't recall anyone honking and cheering us on with a "way to go" or "keep going, you're almost done!". Somehow I think they took a glance at the size of the pile and quietly drove on by! That's OK . At least they are watching the progress of the building. Peter and I managed. We are in this together, through thick and thin, rain or shine, right down to the last board that needs moving to higher ground!