Let there be light (week 18)

I don't have many pictures this week but we reached another major milestone with the connection of temporary power on Friday. I pulled up to the house on Friday morning to find Sweetwater Utilities Board working to pull wire from the transformer to our meter box on the side of the house. To my surprise they brought with them a new street light! I have been calling the city planner for 6 weeks and all I got was "I don't know", "I have to much paperwork on my desk to look", and "No, there aren't any more left", even though I knew there were. Luckily last week I talked to Delane Dacus, who we bought the lot from, who then talked to Mr. Plemons the original developer of the neighborhood. Apparently Mr. Plemons helped our city planner find the time to locate the lights because while the utility board guys were there they told me they found 10 more lights and they were going to go ahead and place them around the neighborhood. Friday night Katie and I went back to the house once it was dark and we got to see the house inside and out with all the lights turned on. I can't believe I didn't take a picture. All the rooms look like they have enough light except for maybe the master bathroom. We can always go back and add can lights in this location. I was also pleased when I pulled up Saturday morning to find a bulldozer moving lots of dirt. They moved some dirt on Monday to start getting the driveway up to grade. Saturday they finished grading out the driveway, adding dirt in front of the house, adding and sloping dirt on the side of the house, and adding dirt in the back yard to level out the yard immediately behind the house. We still need one full day of grading to finish up. The forecast is looking good for Monday and Tim has alot planned while the weather is good. Tim is planning on installing the back elevated deck and the HVAC guys are scheduled to install the heat and air on Monday. Tim is also working with the excavators to install the septic tank and fill lines. The counter top crew should be back early next week to install the granite and then the plumbers can do final tie-in. We are getting really close now that final connections are being made. Tim has been holding off on putting more of the wood floors in until all the subs finish their interior work to ensure they don't get scratched up.