Now we have a slab for the basement

It is a lot of rebars

Finally, we can begin!!!

Well, the three weeks took five months with a lot of frustration. Our building engineer is not the fastest man on the planet but he finally got it done.
We have now poured the concrete for the basement slab and had great help from our friends Jack, Mark and Gil, without them it would have been impossible since Stefan was really sick with the flu.
We tried to add some pictures but this blog is not cooperating at this time but as soon as it does we'll put some in.

November 22nd, We have finally received the blue prints!

After almost 3 months we have finally received the calculations from the building engineer. This guy has been stalling and making every excuse in the book of why he didn't make the 2-4 week deadline that he promised us. Stefan met up with him at Riverside County to file the calculations for the building permit and they told him it should take 2-3 weeks before we get the permit.
We are hoping to start building in the beginning of January and we will post more pictures as we progress.
One good thing about this is that Stefan broke his toe this last weekend so he is a little incapacitated and can't do much work anyway...........

More trees

Pure Perseverance

Our wonderful neighbours Mark (in front) and Janet were kind enough to give us some palm trees from their yard. It took Mark and Stefan 3 days and 2 tractors to get this tree
in place.

Future Wine Cellar

August 30th 2006, 3 Trucks arrive with the house

Stefan is beginning the basement

Building Site

We are planning to build the house on this ridge.