The good news is we are 99% done back filling the foundation. Check out this video to take a quick walk around the interior of the foundation before we back filled it. The bad news is winter has officially come and our build site is covered in snow. We are on hold for an unknown amount of time. We still need about one load of fill to put inside the foundation to get it perfectly flat within 1 inch. It is roughly filled but with the pending storm we decided not to have the last load delivered. If we get a delivery we aren't going to use right away it becomes a frozen rock. At some point this winter we will get a warm up and we can get that last load delivered and spread out. Better to just wait until we know we have a break in the weather. Since my last post we also decided to finish the curtain drain. We rented another small mini excavator for the job. At some point in the future we will install and connect gutters from the barn and a cistern for outdoor water use. Fo
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