Ex Ca Vation

When the excavators called yesterday, the man of the house began leaping around with glee. Literally. It begins. . . He took our two eldest out to see "the big shovel," and they came back muddy and excited. Apparently they crawled down into one of the bigger stump holes and began making mud balls. (Their little rubber boots, weighed down by a few extra pounds-worth of mud, have been confined the bottom steps where they will remain.) The lot is now stumped, the culvert is in, and the base rock for the driveway has been laid. "I drove the car right in!" Aidan was so pleased to report. Next week the slab will be poured for the garage. And then. . . we build.