Work Begins -- Week 1

If we ever get to it, part of our landscaping will include a display of our flags. Since the first dirt was turned on the 4th of July, I prepared a "banner" with them on it. You can see the edge of Trout under the shade of a palo verde for this picture.

That's us with the banner & the backhoe. We were there for most of the action. It didn't take very long for them to prepare the preliminary pad for the house. Dave, the builder, said we would go through stages where the place looked enormous, then small, then big again. This day it looked enormous.

These other backhoe pictures also show some of the land & the views. The first one shows some hills to the south.

Those white dots at the top of these mountains to the west are the telescopes at Kitt Peak Observatory.