Thank you to everyone who kept their fingers, toes and eyes crossed

Thank you to everyone who kept their fingers, toes and eyes crossed for us this week to prevent the rain. What I forgot to tell you, was you also needed to do some sort of "building inspection dance" for us. On Tuesday we had our second footing inspection for the footings that were not part of the basement pour, and our inspector failed us for not having "continuous footings". I am not going to even claim that I really know what this means (my husband is the genius in this family, remember?!). We resubmitted our calculations and the certification by the professional engineer and we were told on Friday by the office staff that the inspector failed us again. We have no additional information on why we were failed this go around. We hope to get some information from the inspector on Tuesday so we can finish the footings, the other blockwork and move on. Two steps forward, one step back-remember?

The nice thing when you are at the beginning of a project is there is still a lot to do. So even though Keith was not able to get the footings poured and the block laid, he was able to work on cleaning out the footings again, plant some more trees, and get the foundation waterproof coating almost done. We have some pictures of the foundation coating going up, as well as some that I took on Saturday from the annual Oktoberfest outing. I also took a quite a few shots today at the property when the kids were playing on the gravel pile. Who knew a bunch of stones could be so much fun?! Enjoy, and don't forget to do your dances this week (with your eyes crossed, of course!).