Coincidentally, we broke ground on the house today, 3 July, exactly one year to the day of having purchased the farm.  That’s the good news.

The bad news is we hit solid shale only 2 feet down.  This was a surprise as we hadn’t really encountered much other than boulders to date, and the trees in the area hadn’t been growth stunted.

Breaking Ground

Michael immediately called Caterpillar to see about getting some pointed teeth for the excavator to see if that would break it up.  Of course they were closed for the holiday.  Ah well.  We’ll go back on Monday to try to make little ones out of big ones.