PROGRESS ON OUR HOME

We have a well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Tuesday, the well drillers arrived and made their grand attempt to make their way with all their heavy machinery through our MUDDY, did I happen to mention MUDDY field where they needed to be to drill our well. Of course within the first five minutes....they were stuck. Luckily, my father was my eyes and ears and went out to find out what they were thinking. It didn't take him long to figure out their plan...they wanted their equipment out and they were going to throw in the towel! Talk about a rapid rise in this gals blood pressure. I called our builder and said "Steve, they are saying they are going to get their truck out and leave and NOT drill our well because it's too muddy!!!!" Now imagine that in a much more anxious and panic stricken voice. Steve being the sweet guy he is tried to calm me down and he was on his was out to evaluate the situation. In the meantime my Dad asked the well drillers "If we can get you back to the spot you need to be can you drill the well?" They said "well yes, we want to work but this is not the only place we are unable to get in to drill". My Dad said the guy said "Yes" like yeah...but we both know that's not going to happen. So my Dad came inside and started making phone calls. He was able to contact the farmer who has always cash rented our land and called in a favor. Let me just tell you all...Keevin is my HERO! He was here in no time at all with a big CAT tractor and pulled all of their trucks back to the drilling site where they were able to hit water with their first attempt! The entire process took less than two hours. All of this stress and worry for a measly two hour job! CRAZY!!! I feel like a giddy little girl in a candy store! I cannot believe that in approximately 1.5-2 weeks we will be moving in to our new home!?!?!?!?

Thank you to all of you who said little prayers for us...God was listening! We will have more updates as they become available but tentatively our plans include collecting a water sample to be evaluated on Monday (overnight) then once the results are in and provided the sample passes then we call for our final inspection. Once we have our move in slip in hand we will be quite busy for a while getting all tucked away in our new home. WE CAN'T WAIT :) :) :) :) ;) :)

QUICK HOUSE UPDATE....

OK, so you are probably wondering why I haven't mentioned any updates on our home building recently...well that is because this gal has been PRETTY FRUSTRATED while trying to wait for Indiana weather to decide to comply so we can have our well drilled. Due to the massive weight of the well drilling machinery the ground needs to be either frozen or dry enough that it will not sink...not going to happen! I think that our builder has realized this and he and the well driller are going to make their best effort to get our well drilled TODAY! They are going to have a tractor and a back hoe on stand-by if needed to pull the drilling machine out. Works for me! Of course, I am not holding my breath as if I'd done that in the past I would not be here to type this post (I realize this is a negative attitude right now but I promise it is brief and not my usual! Just speaking through my frustration with this situation!!!) but I am holding lots of hope that this really does happen and IF it does than we are ready to call for final inspection and should be moving in very soon. So....what I need from all of you out there........send up lots of prayers today please that they really are able to get the well drilled (and actually show up to attempt it~~~oops negativity again :), and cross all your fingers and toes and what ever else you think might help!!!!! I'll let you know soon how it goes!