We just finished our second weekend of working on the house. We have a generator and a saw now, so it was alot easier to get things done.

Friday we spend the morning getting the new tools set up and put together and the rest of the day we finished the beam across the back of the house. Saturday Eric and Dad spent the morning working on the main beam while Mom and I mowed some grass. We had a cookout planned so we had to quit early, but we wanted to get as much done as we could. Finally the beam is finished and next weekend we can start putting the floor joists in.

We are still waiting to hear about the septic. The excavator is waiting to hear from the inspector that the meeting with the soil scientist is scheduled. We just did this all a few weeks ago, but after the grass was mowed the lay of the land can be seen more clearly and he feels that alot of what they are asking us to do is unnecessary, especially since we will be using a composting toilet and wont really be using the septic.

So, we decided to take out all of the stakes in the clearing so we can play baseball after our cookout. I trimmed the grass down really low and spray painted the hole so I could put them all back in before their meeting. Hopefully they will have that meeting sooner rather then later.