Mike and Jeff's New House

Our lot was finally surveyed on Saturday, March 26th..We found a man who works fulltime as a surveyor for the State of CA. He also does jobs on the side. Dave was prompt and efficient, and best of all, he kept us on budget...

We built this little structure next to our garage about ten years ago....We used it to keep our garbage cans out of view and to act as a trellis for a beautiful wisteria.......This past Saturday we started to take it apart...All that remains now are the corner posts and the brick floor, they will be removed this coming Saturday... In the background you can see the new house that was built within the past year, it is similarily narrow, but it is only 15 feet wide, ours will be 17 feet wide......

We planted our circle garden about ten years ago and it took us an entire weekend to install the benderboard that defined the edges. It took less than an hour to rip it all out of the ground....This coming weekend we have friends coming by to rescue some of the plants . Come on by if you want some Ballota or Teucrium for your garden. If they don't find a good home, they will be euthanized within a week....

We spoke with the concrete guy last night and we finally have our first signed contract.......Our very first on this project....Now, on to the framer.... The lot is soaking wet, hopefully it dries out by this weekend as we need to finish ripping out the circle garden so that we can get a grader in here next week.

A breakthrough in the hunt for a surveyor... We discovered that we were using the wrong words.... It turns out we don't really need a complete survey, we just need to have the corners set..... Sounds like the same thing to me, but it should cost around $1,500 vs. $4,500....