The house corners staked to layout the foundation:

Footings trenched and ready for concrete:

Steel reinforcing placed in bottom of footers:

Concrete footings poured!  The vertical foundation walls will start later this week with framing following soon.  The vertical rebar in the photos will tie the block foundation wall to the footings.

Photos looking into the site from the street.  Gravel temporary construction entrance which is also the final driveway entrance location.  The gravel is required by the Ramble to prevent truck tires from bringing mud onto the road.

End gravel construction drive looking toward the auto court and front of the house.

The grade is currently cut to the level of the crawl space which meets grade at the front left corner.  The final grade will come up slightly at the parking and back side of the house.  It is being flattened out for the back yard.

Drive looking towards the garage location.

Back corner of the garage will retain the existing grade height and slope down towards the back yard.  You can also see dirt being piled up where the landscaped earth berm will eventually be.  This will sheild the house from noise and car lights that might be seen from the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Dirt being piled up that will eventually fill in the auto court.  Some of the dirt will also be used to grade up the front of the autocourt wall to dimish it's height as seen from the road.

Standing at approximately the garage looking back towards the street.  The driveway is going to have a very gradual and easy slope up to the parking areas.

Driveway Grading

Clearing Complete, Stumps Removed, Grading Begins

We cleared a trail from the bottom East corner of the lot to the building pad to run the sewer line.  This video is walking from the street at that corner of the lot up to the house.  You come into the house at the front right corner.  This is a good indication of what we can do with other portions of the site clearing out the underbrush.  Luckily we were able to find this direct path without cutting down any more trees.

Clearing Begins