The Dig

Day 1 (1/24)...They discovered "ciliche" after digging down 3 feet. That just means more money for them. Now we have to pay them by the hour ($275) and give them our first born! Wonder how many hours it will take??





Day 2 (1/25)...John and I debate about doing the work at night ourselves since they left the machines and the keys. They spent all day (9 hours) yesterday with the "hard dig" and will need to do more tomorrow. Yeah, it is a lot of rock but geez. When this is over we will need to plant a money tree. For now, we just have a money dirt hole.




Day 3 (1/26)...Well, 12.5 hours and $45 each for 5 load they had to take somewhere special because of the "cliche" later and our pool is dug. You can do the math to figure out how much money out of pocket we had to come up with. John was SO happy. I wrote on the bottom of the check in the memo line "Ciliche Scam". Thought it was the truth. What a racket they came up with. It is all pool companies out here. Just a way to make extra money. Anyway, next is plumbing on Tuesday 1/30.




Here Christian is enjoying the machines they left at night. He had a lot of fun wathcing them dig every day. Most of the time he stood at the window in his underwear. I am sure he scared the snot out of the poor workers.

Construction at the Fueller's

We are having a pool built. I thought it would be fun to document all the things that happen while having that done. It all started yesterday (1/22/07) when some cute guy came out to do lots of measurments. He then spray painted and marked with huge nails the outline of the pool. It will be 15 feet wide (although it is curvy so it changes in different spots) and 29 feet long. There is a baja step at the shallow end that will be 18 inched deep (for Jilliann to play on)and a rock waterfall at the deeper end (5 feet). We are very excited to get this thing going. It is costing us an arm and a leg but in Arizona I think it is close to a necessity.

Tomorrow they are supposed to come dig it. I will post pictures as things change.

For your Information

I always like to share important information I find so here is a new bit I learned today...it takes 2 rolls of paper towels, 2 big bath towels, 4 washcloths and 1 hour to clean up a gallon of syrup spilled on the floor of the pantry. The dog and the baby add another 15 minutes.

Christian was "helping" get the syrup out of the pantry off a shelf too high for him to reach. As he was climbing he reached for the syrup and knocked it off the shelf. Yes it is in plastic but apparently with enough force even that will crack down the whole side. Gotta love CostCo size things...and brand new at that! As I was trying to catch the majority of it from running into EVERYTHING on the floor of the pantry (which was a lost cause) he announced that since the syrup was spilled he would rather have peanut butter and honey on his waffles. He is so sweet!

I am off to take him to preschool. Not sure yet if I am going to pick him up at 3:00pm. Between now and then I think Jilliann and I will go out and have a margarita!

R.I.P.

In October my step-dad's mother passed away. Although it was a blessing really, as she was suffering and old, it was still sad. On New Year's morning George's father passed away. It makes me stop to contemplate the reality of life. Funny how they both lived long and happy lives but saying goodbye is still hard. Please pray for George and his family as they deal with the passing of both parents in such a short amount of time.