And like that *poof*, they were gone.

 Apparently the cement walls only needed to cure overnight, because the concrete crew was back in the morning on Day 12.  Within a few hours they had the forms down, the equipment loaded on the truck, and the site cleaned up.  They did a fantastic job!

photo courtesy Mom

While all of this was going on, my farrier came to trim Flea.  There were trucks and cranes and bangs and booms, but Flea was only his normal turd self, and didn't give Kaitlyn too much of a hard time.  Desensitizing at it's finest; there are people who would pay to put their horses through something like this, ha!

Now the excavating contractor can finish his part of the job.  He will backfill the foundation, put in the new leach field, and has already begun to level off the area for the new driveway.

Mom and I are both floored by the dirt he's digging up right now.  Nary a rock to be seen!  It's definitely better soil than what he dug up for the foundation hole, and what was dug up for the new barn.  I'm sure he'll use this nicer earth to backfill, which means I may actually have a shot at creating some gardens around the edge of the house.  Nice!