Mr. Bill working on the forms.. it's almost as much fun as it looks!

Rebar in the forms. We cut 16-24 inches into the ground, and filled it with rebar before pouring cement. We figured it was a good idea to have a foundation that ISN'T GOING TO BUDGE.

Post-pouring. Look what that mean truck driver did to my yard!!!

Final form after putting sand on top - I know I've got better pics of this somewhere, but I've gotta find them. Pic 1: looking northeast, Pic2: looking northwest, Pic2: looking north (look - neighbors!).

THE MOVE: Here's the house on the moving trailer at the original location (a MILE AND A HALF AWAY! What luck!). Pic 1: from front, Pic 2: from back. That little sucker on the back is supposed to be my laundry room - I'm feeling an addition coming on.

Yay! The house arrives!
I have more pics (again) and video of the actual move - which was nerve-wracking for me to say the least.

FEEL MY PAIN.
And you thought YOUR house was messy.
This, my friends, is what I have been cleaning for months on end. The walls are (with one exception) beautiful cypress board walls. The problem here? It was common practice oh-so-many years ago (earliest we can discern is 1925 or so) to insulate one's walls with flour sacks and newsprint. So, besides the, in some rooms, SEVEN layers of wallpaper and panelling we pulled off, there was a TON of this nit-picky stuff that we've scraped off by hand (god bless Simple Green). A couple of the walls came out so beautifully, we're thinking about leaving them exposed. One other advantage of these solid walls (besides killer construction and weight) is that we don't even have to insulate in-wall - just in the attic and floor. :)

You can see the walls better painted (they will be covered with either paneling or dry wall). We only had to paint some of them because they'd been painted before with mega-lead based paint.

Molly and her best bud Adonis play in the sand where the garage is now.