First the the foundation. This week, the applied the seal coat, back filled some of the dirt and added more gravel to the foundation interior. I have a construction camera video of the action at the end of this post, but meanwhile here are three pictures.

This is the current foundation seen from the garage area. That is the location of the front stoop you can see on the right, and the opening for the basement door.

Here is the foundation seen from the river side. You can see the cut out for the basement windows and the opening for the basement door (which we will use to get down to the river as an alternative to the stairs planned on the north side of the deck).

It is now easy for me to actually go inside my basement to be. Here is an interior picture from the corner under the master bedroom. I assume the gravel will be eventually be covered by a concrete basement floor.

Meanwhile we spent another few hours removing invasives. While we were there, we checked to see how the newly planted trees were doing. Three of the four trees took and are doing well as you can see here. The four tree did not leaf out and will need to be replaced.

While I was there, I moved the construction camera back to its original tree so this weeks video will be the last side view for a while. You can see its new location below.

The wood gets delivered on Tuesday, which means that the house will start to get framed soon. Meanwhile, here is last weeks construction camera video showing the back filling, seal coating and addition of gravel. I skipped the surveyor activity which was boring.

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