Barefoot on the Job Site

It took me 45 minutes before I realized Laura wore open toed sandals for our job site visit this week. We got all the way through the visit, and were on our way out to the driveway before I caught that. Naughty Laura! (Gotta Love 'er.)

Our meeting with our builder, John Hammerschmidt, and the foreman, Sean was a day early this week. Laura & I have a weekend conference in Reno for our chocolate business. This week, we covered a bunch of infrastructure items:

• John confirmed that sprinklers will NOT be required by the city (yay!).
• We re-confirmed the window plans.
• and we discussed the need for a dry well for roof runoff since the new structure will cover 140% of the footprint of the original.

With the house as open as it's been, I found myself wondering this week why I was still carrying the keys for the old doors. Then I got a bright idea from shipbuilding tradition.

As a ship's keel is laid down, tradition is to seal coins into it for good fortune. My idea was to embed the former keys in the new concrete as it pours. As I shared the idea, I was wondering if John, Sean and Laura would wind up amused. Instead, they raised the bar. Between 'em, they came up with the idea that in addition to keys, we should go ahead and place some coins of our own!

After the foundation pours next week, and we place coins, we'll forever more be able to say the house has buried treasure!