A Nugget and a Doodle

So there's all this anticipation about "breaking ground" to get started.  And then you sit and wait.  A lot. Last time you saw some dirt moved around.  We made some decisions about how to grade the lot.  Those decisions were completely disregarded for engineering reasons (we think).  What this means is our backyard is going to slope down steadily with a difference of about 5 feet from the back of our house to the back of our property line.  :(  More to come on that as we look for solutions.   This was two weeks in with more dirt moved around. Although the kids had fun playing at this visit, I left feeling uneasy about the level of the grade and the slow progress.  You can tell how excited we all were for our weekly visits based on us all having knee high rubber boots.  Are we cute or obnoxious?

It's going to be a while before I have any more construction updates to share aside from more pictures of dirt.  Evidently, there are dueling engineers fighting over soil, so they're going to run more tests on it, and those results will take 3 days, so we've hurried and now we wait.  So in the meantime, I thought I might tantalize you with my latest project.  I'm rather proud of this one! When we moved, mom and dad were going to sell their dining room table and the matching buffet.  It's a very large, very solid oak farmhouse style table.  it's 6' long without the extensions, and that was how I was used to seeing it.  It was also a very orange honey oak color that lends itself to country decor, and while that finish isn't our style, the table itself is a winner.  So we asked them to lug this beast from Boston out to Dallas for us with the intent of refinishing it for use in our new house! Here she WAS in her petite form without the extensions in al...