A Changing Landscape... Again

After an extended period of excessive ordinance, finally something has come about worth writing down! The story is as follows:

I had been walking home from a musical rehearsal at school. I turned the final corner before my block, and made the last few steps of the journey totally oblivious as to what I was about to see. I approached the Shack, and prepared to open the gate to enter the yard. It was then that I realized, there was a total lack of gate, and a good chunk of fence had been flattened to the ground.

I knew that this had been coming, I just wasn't entirely sure when. The purpose of this new not-fence is to create space for large machinery to enter our yard and get down to business on the concrete piles Dad has already ordered, creating the foundation for phase one of our prospective new non-shack (also known as a house). Evidently today was the day that this needed to be done, and Dad certainly did it, although the idea was to remove the section of fence entirely. This proved difficult as it is still frozen into the ground. All in due time, I suppose.

This has indeed changed the landscape of our property fairly drastically. Obviously, there is a chunk of fence missing in the front. Since we can't very well let our dog out in a yard that is incompletely fenced, Dad has (a few weeks ago already actually, he was thinking ahead) created a small barricaded area in the backyard for Bruce to go out and take care of his business in. This is a pretty crude setup, bringing into use things such as plywood and snow shovels. Another fence that this has made unnecessary is the incredibly attractive (now mostly defunct) temporary fence made out of that fluorescent orange chain-linkesque plastic found only on the classiest of construction sites. Yes, the hole is now fully accessible, convenient seeing as according to Dad we should be getting our piles soon.

And you are now up-to-date on our building process. I may attempt to put some pictures up within the next couple of days so that you may fully understand what I am describing. For now, I am enjoying the fact that we are moving forward, edging closer and closer to having a new residence on the same property (that still sounds funny to me sometimes).

UPDATE:
Here is a photo of what the property currently looks like (March 2, 2010):