Well a lot has happened...I am now down to 60% time at work and this is my first really long weekend at the farm. I'm now re-thinking things and thinking about going back to work full-time...to save my aching back!

This picture titled 'Boys and their toys'. What they once did with several men and shovels is done by one man and one shovel with 'more power'. Here you see him adding fill dirt as a base for our future floor.

Then they added pea gravel, and then more insullation and re-bar.

Then our work began...we laid nine 300 foot rolls of pex tubing for our radiant floor heat! We laid it loosely at first, and then Don left for a much needed mini-vacation to the GLREA Energy Fair in Manistee and I began the process of tying 10,000 electrical ties!

...and then you see it laid all nice and neat!

Besides the work on the floor, they did the rough grade.

And we got water! Well, we had the well for some time but Bud came and installed a loaner pump that we can run with our generator. Yeah! No more carrying water from Royal Oak, or begging it from our neighbors.

And finally, a little side note...as if I didn't have enough to do this weekend in 90+ degree heat...our bees decided (while I was there alone) that their hive was a little too crowded. So they swarmed. I heard the ruckus when I stopped to get a drink of water...happily, they didn't go far. They landed on a nearby pear tree while they decided where to go next. I suited up and sprayed them down with sugar water and gently brushed them into a garbage can to hold them while I prepared their new home. Our one hive is now two.

Next, they lay the floor!