A foundation, a tile, and some gravel, oh my!

It's Turkey Week in the good ole US of A! And we would like to seize the opportunity to give thanks for, well, a lot of stuff (but we're going to stick to the house).

Thanks, Brickworks in Tullahoma, for building three-quarters of the foundation on our home in one day. Your masonry work and efficiency is impeccable. Hopefully, by next week, the mudpit...uhh, crawlspace...will be solid ground once again for a speedy completion. So, Brickwork masons, we wish you many turkeys and issue you many thanks for all the tough work you do. Butterin' brick ain't for the weak!

Mud wrestling, anyone?

And thanks, Timmy (because we're pretty sure it was you), for leaving your 'ho duties behind and depositing gravel on the bottom half of our driveway. Because of you, we feel like we are getting somewhere...like up the driveway! (Geez, if I were any funnier, I'd have to take this show on the road!) Timmy, have a great Turkey Day, and pretty-please-with-gravy-on-top be kind with your bill next week.

Follow the yellow brick road. Okay, so it's not yellow. Deal with it!

Of course we haven't forgotten you, Indy. Thanks for rolling up your sleeves on Monday and digging our water trench and laying our line. (Note: we are also thanking any elves or right-hand-men who were of assistance to Indy during this process, for we do not know the precise details of who actually assisted in defying gravity to make water flow up a hill. Nevertheless, we tip our hats to them.) We would also like to express our appreciation for laying the tile, culvert, or (as I like to call it) the-cylindrical-thing-that-goes-underneath-the-driveway-to-channel-water-and-keep-the-driveway-from-looking-like-a-slop-trough. Indy, I would also personally like to thank you for the voluntary information you presented today: letting us know you'll be out of town next week and how to reach you if need be, discussing with us the timeline of the next two weeks, informing us why our foundation sits five blocks high instead of four, estimating a roof cost and letting us know that we need to go pick one out, and finally for reassuring us that we haven't blown our budget, yet. So, Indy, enjoy that Thanksgiving feast and your week-long vacay doing whatever it is that Indys do. But on Monday, December 6th, vacay is over, and you better get your frame on!

Our hill's been violated! Look away, it's hideous!

It's working!

And last but not least, a collective thank you to Indy, Timmy, and John the Electrician for incessantly calling Duck River Electric in attempts to reach someone there who might, just might, like to place a temporary pole on our land. So electric company, we are all dumber for having dealt with you, I award you no turkeys and may God have mercy on your soul! (Note: very few people will laugh as hysterically as I'm laughing at this last line!)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!