The foundation was filled in, although not before Cheryl and I were able to drop several cinder blocks and old bricks into the pit, which saves me from bringing those to Concord's drop-off/swap-off day and paying to have them thrown away. The previous owners of the house had a lot of concrete and concrete block around, we're gradually getting rid of it.
Cheryl and I are in the midst of making key decisions about windows and doors, which is harder than expected but will get done.
The foundation forms were stripped off and the foundation surface tuned so the framers will be happy with it. The building inspector came and signed off on the foundation, and tomorrow the backfilling will be done.
The foundation walls were poured today. The footings took 10 yards of concrete and the foundation walls required 16. That meant two cement trucks and one happy four-year-old. I'm amazed at how interesting I think the concrete work is, how the concrete guy blocks off sections where concrete shouldn't be in order to get doorways, the placement of the anchor bolts, the delivery process...
The forms get stripped tomorrow and (hopefully) the inspection of the footings and walls passes tomorrow afternoon.
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