Nearly every post on Lee-Hall Farm could begin, “The long awaited ___________.”, this post is no exception.

The long awaited driveway, long awaited because it would lead to the future garage and house and it would mean something, anything, any action at all was beginning.  After a very rainy start to 2013, the driveway was finally being cut.  Since January 1st there had not been 10 days in row without rain; there hardly had been 7.  I believe the water numbers were 12″ of rain by the end of February and 4″ of rain or snow during the first 10 days of March.  The water resulted in every thing relating to the house being “long awaited.”

March 11th arrived as did equipment for cutting our new driveway.  The existing driveway would be used until just before the existing garage.  Just before the existing garage, the driveway would make a slight left turn to head toward mid-field, about 3/4 of the way toward the back of our lot, to where our new garage and new house were to be dug.

John and I never thought we’d find the digging of a driveway so exciting, but we did because it was ours and because it was like a long overdue birth.  It also came with a cost.  Due to the exceptionally wet January – early March, the driveway had to be reinforced to enable the heavy trucks, especially the cement trucks, to get to the building site.

Daniel, the excavator who cut the driveway as well as dug the foundation, was amazingly skilled.  The excavator was like an arm and a hand under his direction.  Six truckloads later of #3 rock, several truckloads of crushed asphalt and several thousand dollars, we had ourselves a driveway.  At long last!  It felt like we had our very own yellow brick road.

We had purchased a lovely bottle of champagne to cork when we broke ground.  The driveway now laid on the land and the champagne bottle still laid in wait.