A SMOOTH ROAD – Yipppeeeee!
Nothing brings out the neighborhood like a good old fashioned asphalt laying! :)
It’s actually pretty amazing how fast they are able to do it. The dump truck backs up to the asphalt layer and starts to dump.
It looked like the dump truck was in neutral and the asphalt layer pushed it [...]

So THIS isn’t what we wanted to see (OR HEAR) when we woke up this morning! Two dudes with headbands and a JACKHAMMER!
For some reason as they were putting the sewer lines in last summer, they buried the manhole in front of our yard. Didn’t make sense to us at the time, and it still [...]

“Big Truck” is all that Ryan has been saying for the past few days. So what does he do when we get to take a picture on the big truck?
He was pretty much freaked out.
Many thanks for Richard, the guy operating the Excavator! :)

October 5th – Happy 17th Anniversary Matt & Andrea!
Bright and early…WAY too early!
Pulling out the dirt and sand.

Our streets are pretty narrow, so usually one truck at a time can get down. I thought this was pretty cool how the front end loader would pour the rocks into the bucket of the excavator, then the [...]

Yesterday – October 4th
I’m completely amazed at how precise the operator of this HUGE excavator is! I could watch it all day!
Ryan likes to watch it too…for a little while anyway. Every time it makes a big noise, he says “Ba Boom!” :)

After the dirt and sand is taken out of the ground, a huge [...]

We were awakened this morning by the mechanical roar of the road crew and trucks in front of our house promptly at 7am, followed by a ring of our door bell. It was the job foreman (I think) asking us to move our cars even further down the road from where we left them [...]

Look at the BIG “kitty” at the end of our street! Actually, it’s about 75-100 yards away! My guess is that they’ll be in front of our house in a few days! (Forget about nap time when that happens! Maybe we’ll have to take road trips!)

….we’re FINALLY going to get sewers in our neighborhood!
Yipppeeee!!!
I know, it’s a strange thing to be excited about, but we’ve been living with a cess pool since we moved in! (Never heard of a cess pool? It’s just a hole in the ground! Nope…no septic for us, we’re living in the “dark ages! hehe) I [...]