There has been little movement these past few weeks, though I wouldn't say nothing happened. The septic installers had the field all covered up and were waiting to get enough other sites prepped to rent the equipment to get them seeded and mulched. They called this past weekend to let us know that that is all done and they are sending the final bill. Our engineer and the Health Department should be out there sometime this week to have the final inspection. We will get a certificate of compliance from the Health Department once the water has been tested (I think they said it has to be tested in the house).
The well driller called back to let us know he got into the site and it started to rain and then got too muddy for him to keep his rig there. He will wait until the ground freezes to drill the well. I suppose that if he can drill through rock, a little frozen ground won't deter him. No big deal if it doesn't happen for a month or even two, though I would like it done by the end of January, just to get it out of the way. As David (the main man of FirstDay) told us, there is at least a week between every thing that needs to be done. I don't want to try to jam all those weeks together; I think it could get very intense. We have been trying to buffer that week by a bit for each thing.
Lastly, the news that precipitated the post, is that we received our plans from FirstDay yesterday! David called to check on some things last week and told us he was working on them. He also told us he changed something in the kitchen but that it was to be a surprise. We are very excited about the plans, and once I have access to a scanner (over the Thanksgiving holiday), I will post them up here.
P.S. David had to change the kitchen configuration a bit due to stair and door placement, and included an island with a built-in bench in the kitchen. We're not sure how we feel about a 4' x 7' island in a 12' x 16' kitchen, but I am going to try to render it in SketchUp and so we can see what it looks like before we make up our minds.
