We heard from Ty on our crew that the project isn't official until the portapotty is delivered. Ours was this week, so we're official! In case you haven't noticed, every portapotty company name in the country is a play on words about the eventual use of their product. Our vendor John didn't disappoint. He calls his company "Hawaii John's" and his proud byline is "John's my name, Shit's my game".
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Along with the cesspool this past week, we had groundbreaking. But before that, Robert, Bob our contractor, and Lawrence our foundation guy, moved the house and master suite three times. Well, they didn't have to move much more than lines painted on the ground, but it was critically important to site the house on exactly the right spot. Where it ended up on the second try didn't work once Lawrence started making the stone foundation. So we moved it back from the edge of the house pad a few feet and voila, it worked. These are only two of the thousands of decisions we will be making over the next year.
The cesspool (left) adorned by me with a Starburst (clerodendrum quadriloculare) flower on the bottom.
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| Lawrence doing the first shovelful of our groundbreaking. (above) |
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| View to the ocean from the house pad, with Robert for scale. |
Within a couple weeks, Lawrence should be ready with the foundation, and the concrete trucks will pour the main house and master suite house pads.
Next blog will be a early in February with, we hope, pictures of our concrete foundation going in!
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