What's that big box for?

Today the builder built a box in our front yard out of OSB for trash. Not much more to report since we've had so much rain lately.

Foundation Crew Arrival

The builder sales rep texted me a photo today of the foundation crew. It looks like they are starting to lay out boards for building the foundation forms.

Snow Day and Gas Line Markers

The forecast called for 2-4 inches of snow. Being a native north Texan, I know better. We did get about a half inch of snow that quickly melted away.

At lunch, I drove the family over to the lot to see if there was any snow on the ground. There was a little but most of it had already melted into large puddles of water.

An unexpected sight was the little yellow Atmos Energy buried gas line markers that have appeared since our last visit on Saturday.

Ground Breaking (Day Photos)

Kelvin and I drove over to the lot today to take a few pictures of what we could barely see last night. The ground breaking.

Ground Breaking

We decided to go for a drive this evening just to get out of the house. Everyone has been sick for weeks and it has a lot to do with the poor air quality in our crummy apartment.

I started heading toward our new neighborhood kind of aimlessly. Kelvin got sleepy so we decided to turn around and go back home. We were pretty much already just about in our new area when my wife asked me where I was going. I said, we came this far already, we might as well drive by our lot.

To our surprise we discovered that ground has been broken. We were very excited to see this. Even Kelvin woke up excited.

It was dark but I managed to shine the brights on some of the land to get a photo. We will have to go back over during daylight hours.

It's hard to see in this picture but the sidewalk, driveway and foundation is ready to be formed.

Lot Transfer

Our builder sales rep called me this morning and confirmed indeed that the house must face West. She had a solid reason but the details leave me now. It had to do with a retaining wall and 7 feet. It sounded like a matter of irrigation.

My wife and I had discussed looking at another lot just 5 plats over and a sure thing on the direction of the house. So, we put that into motion and had the rep verify availability of the new lot. She chose the new lot because of the number. There is a water tower very close by and I don't want to look out the window and see it all of the time. It shouldn't be visible from inside of the house. The upside is we can enjoy the free shade during the summer.

We received confirmation on the availability of the new lot and I was asked to show up to sign the new contract and terminate the old one immediately to avoid further delays.

I raced over to her office and signed everything, well almost. There are a few tie in pieces that involve third parties such as the color selections addendum paperwork that will need to reflect the new address.

[sigh] I had to go move the frozen sold sign from the corner lot over to the new lot. It's much smaller but not tiny. We really don't want to go through the entire process again. We are no longer getting the holy-cow-how-did-you-get-so-lucky deal, but still getting a really-good-deal.