Where's the frackin' pot of gold?!?

The Gods are smiling upon us (well, really more of a colorful frown).

We started this project on St. Patrick's Day and now we appear to be building at the end of a rainbow.  Sadly, our search for a pot of gold (or even de-valued dollars) was fruitless.  At least it's pretty anyway.  The whole event had dozens of people out in the Lafayette Square area.  After a heavy rain the clouds parted in the West and the setting Sun gave us this show.  There were actually two rainbows with a fainter one appearing above the one in the picture.  This photo is with an iPhone, so talk to Steve Jobs if you can't see the second rainbow.

As part of this phase the lot was also given its first grading.  That's not like what a teacher puts on your report card.  Grading in this case is contouring of the land to give it a pleasing and manageable shape.  Our landscaping plan calls for a berm or two and a rain garden so the shape will be complicated.  With two persnickety people (well, one and a half), what else would you expect?

It's a bit hard to tell from the perspective of the picture (even I don't control enough of the Universe to make a rainbow move into the right position) but the backfilling of soil around the foundation has occurred.  The next step is to start framing.  Yea!  This will be a very dramatic step allowing us to see the house really take shape.  The rainy weather has delayed us again, but Jason is planning on starting the framing by the end of the first week in June.  Never know if that will actually happen, but we're hopeful.  Delays are an expected part of a building project of this complexity.  That last sentence sounded like it was written by a sane person, didn't it?  Must be a latent part of my personality.  

Stay tuned, the drama never stops.

Onward and Upward,

Mark, Mark & Isabel