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June 2, 2006

Construction Daily

Today we met Ron and the camera crew at the site at 7:30 AM so we could position the house on the cleared site. Ron took some rough elevations, and we had a few measuring tapes out to get an idea of the footprint of the house (big!) Due to the amount of clearing that Ron and Dozer did we were able to move the new home farther from the pond in order to give us more seating areas for the eventual hillside terraces, and we were also able to move about 15' farther into the site from Sagle Road to give us a slightly larger front yard. Ron said when they go to backfill the foundation, that they will actually cut 2' of the hill between the house and the road, and push it around the sides of the house to create a bit of a "back yard" behind the walk-out basement before the hill drops away to the pond.

The best part was when Trevor (Ron's helper) picked Shannon and I up in the bucket of the bobcat, and moved into position so that we were standing exactly in the spot where the tasting bar will eventually go so we could look out into the vineyard. What an awesome view it is going to be!!!

Posted by Stephen at June 2, 2006 8:36 PM