Moving mountains

The north side of the house is much lower than the south side. Below is a picture of the forms that we built for the front (east side) of the house. As you can see, when we made it to the north side, the forms were quite a ways from the ground. We decided that before we built the forms on the north side we would bring in some dirt to make things easier. On the east side we had to figure something out so the concrete wouldn't go everywhere, so we built up the holes with sheetrock and then piled dirt up around it. We had a couple little blow outs, but nothing too major. But, we thought we'd make it easier on ourselves the next time around.

The very back yard was really uneven, so Dana stole dirt from the high spots. Thank goodness for tractors!

Bandit always wants to go along for a ride, you can't keep him out of that trailer. I don't think he thought it was so fun once the trailer was filled with dirt! He got himself un-buried though and then just walked all over the top of all the dirt.