We have a basement!

Well…a hole for the basement, that is.

We’re doing a partial basement, approximately 500 square feet, to house the water heater, HVAC system, electrical panel, etc., and to serve as a storm shelter.  We decided against a full basement because we will have plenty of room in the house itself and we do not want to be tempted to “collect” a lot of items we do not use.  We’ll see how that pans out, but we have high hopes for our anti-hoarding selves.

Or perhaps we could turn it into an indoor swimming pool…

Check out the different layers of soil.  It looks like a medium/medium rare steak to me.

Miraculously, we didn’t hit any rock.  You never know in Tennessee so we got lucky.

The basement is supposed to be poured next week! I’m as excited about this as I was about Santa Claus coming when I was five years old.

The only critter of note on the trail camera was a coyote.  It’s been very windy the last week or so and thus we have 79 videos of the branch shaking in front of the camera.  I think it’s time to reposition the camera….