Pix of construction so far...

Here you can see our view--the hills in the background are the coast range.

This is the capped-off well pipe.

This is the new road they are building, going toward the house. The green area is where the house will be.

Here is more of the new road, the home site is up to the left, where the big excavator is.

Here they are leveling out the home site. There is so much dirt everywhere! The excavators had to dig down quite a bit to make it level since the land is slightly sloped.

Here they are leveling out the land. This is our favorite excavator, Bruce.

Here is a deer standing on a dirt pile. They aren't afraid of the big machinery at all.

Here are the trenches for the electrical.

I had just seeded this area a few weeks earlier with grass. Oh well!

Here are two deer using the dirt piles to reach tree branches.

Here you can see the terracing where the house will be.

They have to dig down until they get to solid, hard dirt that the foundation will sit on.

These piles of dirt are twice our height!