Can you Hear the Crickets??

So after finally moving the 5.7 miles to our land and arriving at her final destination our little house just sat, quietly, in the wind, waiting..cue crickets chirping. I was actually amazed how smoothly the move went.. the hot water heater in our front room didn't tip and we had a mcDonalds cup on the counter in the kitchen both of which were still standing! Here is the front room and I will have to find the picture of the cup!

Because it was a DOT purchase and they wanted it off their land we moved it pretty quickly (deadline was the end of the year to remove it and so the last Sunday in December was moving day) needless to say the building permits had not come through yet. So she sat thru 3 1/2 months before we got the building permit approval!! Yes we did a happy dance jig!

The basement was the first thing we started to get the house on a foundation and take a load off our minds. The house was jacked up 12 foot in the air and footings were poured

Once the footings were dried and passed inspection, wall building commenced!

Then the lovely support beams under our house which it has rested on for 6 months were finally pulled out and our house was settled on its new basement/foundation.