Forming it up

The trenches are in. We will be putting in forms sor the next few days.

Pulling strings

Today we started laying out the house.










Suzie's friends came to visit. Jonathan works his first day.

Check out our pad

We had to bring in 1300 tons of fill to make the site level. Here Zeke Trujillo tests the soil to see if it is compacted enough. He charged us $300.00 Hope Tony Soprano doesn't show up on the worksite.

We struck water!

They hit water at 360 feet. They dug to 415 feet to get well into the aquafer. Suzie and Wendy are playing in the muck that comes out from the earth.

Oh Well

Jim Fennell of Fennell drilling Co. came today and set up his rig. He thinks we will have to drill about 300 feet to hit good water.

Hooking up

Today we finished trenching the property and Dan from Paradise Power www.paradisepower.net brought the wire to hook up th the transformer across the street. That is Dan on the right hooking up to the meter.

Electrical service

Today we had to dig up the road to connect to the electrical transformer which is across the road from our property. Here we are carefully digging around gas, phone, cable and internet lines. We did not break anything. We laid the conduit and Dan from Paradise Power will be setting the meter base on Wednesday. Dan will also be installing a grid intertie system which means that on Sunny Taos days our electric meter will be running backwards.