home sweet home

This, right here, is our living room. That big yellow machine had just finished her day's labour digging out our floor, and she is parked right atop our rose bush. It is incredible how fast a crew can work- a room, several walls and the entire front of the house was taken down, the floor ripped up, foundation jacked up and secured, and the crawlspace dug all in one day. Since these photos were taken they have put in a floor for the old living room and the new addition and started on our new (enormous) woodshed. And I can hear them hammering away at the new walls as I write this. It is both exciting and unnerving, especially on that first day, watching (okay, peeking through the upstairs window, I was too scared to go outside,) as they wandered in and out of our home wielding chainsaws and other large implements of destruction and loading all the remnants into this enormous pile.
That, my friends, used to be a part of our house. Now we are trying to figure out what the heck to do with it all. But soon, soon, soon, we will have a home to move into that has enough room to move in, and that is not sinking in to the ground. For that, I am truly glad.