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Building Our House in the Caribbean

Step 2 - Site Preparation

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Chip Digs

The first shovel of dirt is turned.... FrontLoader 1

and a new road is cut...
New Road

We have installed a 500-ft reinforced silt fence and started excavation for the house foundation. Chico works magic with a front loader!

Silt Fence Parking area cut in What the site looks like from Gentle Winds

15 truckloads of rock and dirt were removed Dump Truck

and our friends used our dirt!

Chico and Chip consult on how much more to remove. Chip Surveying

                                                                            We also had to do a lot of surveying! Note the pouch that Clada wears....she wishes Chip would
                                                                               wear one, so he wouldn't keep asking her to walk up the hill for everything that he forgot.....
   Clada Working on the Land

                                                                                                                                                                                  THE POUCH

Chip was a great surveyor (although Clada had the toughest job, climing the hills)....no, Chip didn't drive the frontloader, but couldn't resist sitting in it...

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