Day 28

No pictures yet. Jon forgot to take them yesterday, and the weather today is just too dismal to take decent pictures. But here's Tuesday's progress. Monday night after the carpentry work was finished, Jon began digging out the well. Let me explain. Our well is a deep (200 some odd feet) drilled well that was drilled in an old dug well. The dug well had been filled with rock up to about five feet below the top of the well. The rest of the well contained chucks and blocks of cement and layer upon layer of wood scaffolding to support the outside water pump we had been using with Ralph for the last few years. (Thanks Ralph! When you come next summer, all you have to do is hook up your hose to a faucet to get your water. It's been officially tested and is fine.) So all that had to come out to the filled rock line. Good old Tessie (Jon's Kubota tractor) was just the ticket. Yesterday (Tuesday) Knowlton's Well Drilling came and put in a new 10 gallon a minute submersible pump and plumbed the well line into the Carriage House to a holding tank. Jon spent the rest of the day filling in the gaping hole. Since it's been rainy, it's a bit muddy up there but the old well hole is filled in around the well casing. It looks so much better!
      The next big project is getting the roof sheathing on. Jon has extra help coming Saturday to get that accomplished. We are waiting for CMP to replace the pole so we can run power underground to the Carriage House.  It's all very exciting. Keep your fingers crossed that the weather holds.