Demolition Day 1

August 25, 2009
All day I kept thinking about the demolition, but I didn't want to watch it. So, after my visiting teacher left, I got in the car and drove up, bracing myself for what I would see. I didn't feel as badly as I thought I would. It was hard to see, like a loved one who has undergone surgery, but I realized that we still had the land--the camp and what we will have will be wonderful.

The contractor called tonight to report his work. He said there was a huge ball of ants--thousands of them in the upper part of the house by the lake. They created a ball 36" in diameter! Yuck!

I've attempted to add captions to my "movie." There's a little too much text, so read quickly. You may need to watch twice to really see the pictures...(I'm still learning the art of blogging!) If the picture is too small, let me know and I'll attach it to an email.

Well Drilling August 2009

What a noisy, dirty process! All day the drill dug through the granite, chewing away, 100, 200, 300, 400 feet. At 420 feet they finally reached water, but it wasn't enough--just barely 2 gallons per minute. To be mortgable water, it must be 2.5 gallons per minute. It was the end of the work day and the drillers left, hoping to find the water increased overnight. However, it was just less than 2 gallons in the morning, so on they drilled to about 500 feet, where they hit 10 gallons a minute. No problem with mortgable water now! Well, our first big expense of this project had to go to the maximum...just our luck!