Excavation

"Take today's date, and mark a day 2 months out on your calendar. That's the worst case timeframe for pool construction..." -Robertson Pools

Today we marked our calendars for a July 6, 2011 pool completion date (we'll cross our fingers for July 4th), so we'll see if our pool contractor knows what he's talking about! We have been planning on getting a pool for 5 years, so as the excavation crew arrived this afternoon, it was hard to believe the planning was over. As much as I love construction projects, seeing our front yard getting trampled on, and reassuring our neighbor that their house wouldn't get taken out in the process was a challenge!

On to the fun part...pictures of our progress!

Here is a before and after comparison of the front yard (note the ruts and fence down in the second picture):

The backyard has been painted for a few days, but our big project last weekend was moving the swingset and playhouse out of the way (much thanks to Grandpa and Papa for helping get that done). I thought the backyard looked pretty bad before the crew came, but by the end of today, it was significantly worse!

Although the crew didn't get farther than taking down the fence and pre-grading a fairly level area for the decking, here are a couple shots that show the mess a bobcat and a few hours can make:

Since we don't have more to show yet, here's a rendering of what we expect the finished product to look like...we can hope :-)