The long awaited ground breaking has begun! We’ve got lots of dirt to move, drainage to install and a whole lot of asphalt to bring in. The best part of building the road, is how quickly we can see progress!
Widening the entryway
Saving the good topsoil for landscaping
One of many truckloads of asphalt
Keep it comin'! We need a LOT more!
Now it's starting to look like a road
Just keep driving over it and it'll smooth out!
The entryway paving is complete!
Traveling down the first stretch of the driveway
It's starting to feel like home!
Weekend 1 of building the road is complete! Clearly we have a lot more dirt to bring in...
...a LOT more dirt to bring in!
18 more truckloads of asphalt arrive! Guess we won't be bored!
Week 2: Starting to work on the drainage!
Kris thinks they're building a freeway!
Culvert's going in!
Burying the culvert
Prepping the road to pave over the culvert
View of the asphalt piles where the paving stopped for the culvert install
It's looking ready for pavement!
Just past the culvert is our favorite cedar tree!
View of the rest of our road heading up to where the house will be built.
Excavation around the house build site is needed to bring dirt over to the culvert area for leveling.
The road to the house is prepped!
The excavating team was careful not to disturb our baby cedar until we're ready to transplant it!
The future house site...minus the tree!
Paving is done over the culvert!
A side view of the culvert reveals the Vortex of Doom! See our blog for more details!
The west side of the vortex doesn't look nearly as scary.
Continuing over the culvert towards the house site
Approaching the end of our paving....for now
The view from our future garage
...to be continued!