Foot Prints!

Not the touching poem or anything figurative--well, I guess kinda, but in this case, I'm referring to the foot print of our future home!

My grandfather and I just concluded an hour and a half long session this evening going over layout of the foundation, and designing a cross-section of the footer, etc to better illustrate what all the foundation and crawlspace would entail. 

I found myself in a rather whimsical state at one point when I remembered sitting high on his drafting table as he drew up plans for hundreds upon thousands of septic systems and various civil engineering jobs.  I would use his "stencils" ever so carefully and "trace" the shapes to put down on paper whatever I was "designing" that day.  I feel so fortunate to have those memories as well as build on them as we're building our own forever home, now.  So thank you, Boppa, for all your help and guidance on this journey!

And a premature mention of thanks going out to T&C for all the handy excavation work I know you'll be doing and he'll probably just nod his head and say "No problem" even after he work 8 days a week 27 hours a day as it is in their business, because that's the kinda guy he is! Also, my bro because I know, once Honey gets transferred down, they'll probably be inseparable and constantly on site getting things clicked off!  So yeah, thanks again!

Anyhow, here's what we came up with tonight!

This will let us know how far down the excavation is going to be, the large "channel" is actually going to be a 24-30 inch pipe which will allow air to travel from our solar plenum into the crawl space and heat the floors of the house, since solar is a huge energy source where we are building. 

Everything else is pretty much labelled there, and yet again, here's another moment where I can't believe it's actually happening (the fact we get the opportunity to actually build our own house, is still so surreal) and at the same time, I'm so eager for those moments of breaking ground to get here!

Thanks for stopping by!