Well, we have

a well! and a basement floor! Last week our basement floor was poured and our well was dug! Here are a few pics!

We had it drilled by Fenlong Well Drilling out of a neighboring town. Darrell thought it was pretty clever that their name is on the well cap. Pretty good advertising! Fenlong came on Thursday last week in the pouring rain and completed our well in 3 hours!! I'm not sure if that's a good time or not since I don't know much about how long it takes to drill a well, but that sounded like some sort of record to me! It is 94ft deep, after 40 ft they hit bedrock (so after that we didn't have to pay for well casing!) and we are pumping at 30 gallons/minute! We have plenty of water and he said we are likely to NEVER have any problems with running out! It is in the front yard, and not very pretty to look at, so we will be covering it with one of those giant fake rocks that they sell at Lowes and planting some flowers around it!

We also had our basement floor poured on Friday, and the supporting walls for our breakfast nook were also poured. We couldn't pour the floor after the house is set (which is what usually happens so the floor is protected from the elements during drying) but because of where our basement windows are it wouldn't be possible for the truck to access it - so we poured this past week! We made sure we had a good stretch of sunny weather so the floor will dry nicely. If it rained we'd have little dimples all over the concrete.. we definitely didn't want that!

Here are a few pics of the newly poured floor, the new supporting walls for the breakfast nook (the bump out at the back of the house) and the stairs makeshift ladder we have that will be replaced by stairs going from the basement to the outside!

Our house is set to be delivered sometime this week and set on September 3rd!! We've contacted G&I and they say we're still on schedule so hopefully there will be some big updates over the next 2 weeks!

In the meantime Darrell and I are thinking more about finishes in the house - paint colors, hardware for cabinets, etc. My classroom is also coming along really nicely this year! It's been nice having extra time to get in and get things set up. I plan on doing a post on that once it's officially done and I can take some pictures of it! It's been a lot of work this year but I absolutely love how it's coming together (which is fantastic since I spend more time at school then I do at home during year).

Thanks for stopping by!