Bad Weather in Boise, Big Bertha, & The House Project

I'm sorry for causing all this weird and unseasonable weather. The combination of buying Big Bertha and having a house built converged to produce astonishingly rainstorms (for this time of year) on Monday and Tuesday. In case you weren't aware of it: there's a well-known phenomenon in which buying a very large telescope causes torrential downpours; this is a variant of "wash you car, and it rains."

Having a house built almost certainly contributes to this. The concrete footings were supposed to be poured on Monday. They started pouring, and then it started pouring! Tuesday, they tried again--and the same thing happened! Maybe today they will be successful.

Other good news is that the operation that built the road, and excavated the building site, has spent less than $10,000 so far. The original estimate was $23,000! They still have to put gravel on the driveway, so there's still some more money to be spent, but this isn't a huge expenditure. The gravel is one of the last steps, so that big trucks and cranes going back and forth don't mess up the surface.