We started the delivery of the sand for the foundation this week. It comes in 12 cu. yrd. dump trucks and the way I figure it we'll need 40 truck loads.

Thats 42'X76'(the slab's dimensions) X4' (the pads depth)= 12,768 cu. ft. then divided by 27 (which is the # of cu.ft. in 1 cu. yrd.) = 472 which I rounded up to 480 cu yrds. then divided by 12 yrds. (the size of the trucks load capacity) leaving 40 loads.

James Holder is my sand & gravel deliveryman, with his helper Pete they managed 18 loads thursday and friday.

After reviewing all the bids, it became apparent we didn't want to expend over $300,000 for our new home. We reworked the plans and chose a simple rectangular metal building with steel studs as our basic shell ($50,000 compared to approx. $85,000)

Pam was cruising the net when she found this back-hoe that attaches to my Kodiak 4-wheeler.I went up to Lewisville, Tx checked it out and brought it home.

I started with a pecan tree

I started the ground prep in Jan. by chisel plowing then excavative with my front-end loader.

that was OK till I started running into the roots of the trees that we had removed in mid Feb.We had recieved so much rain in Feb. I had to stop work on the main excavation, so I then went on to cut a drainage ditch.

I'll try and do better at keeping all aprised of uor goin' ons.