Digging for Gold

My Dawg heard a rumour that there was old Spanish gold buried under our house.   So, here he is digging for it.

Digging and digging and digging.

He was very excited and diligent.

He thought he found something in this hole, but it was just an old brick.

So he dug another.

And another until there were ten holes dug all around my house. 

I am just kidding you know.  About the why that is.  There really is ten holes all around my house.  They even dug where one of my Azalea bush once lived.

They are actually digging to lift the house so that it is level.  We have a lot of Yazoo Clay in our area and occassionally it shifts and your house starts to split.  So we have to do this to make it straighten out.

See my poor Azaela bush laying on its side.

Here they are starting to jack hammer holes on either side of my kitchen door.

Digging under my chimney.

The hole under my chimney.

Once all the holes are dug they start inserting these concrete lifts into the dirt and drive them down until they hit rock.

They have to insert and drive down a lot.

It is not a pretty site.  My house looks like it has been hit with bombs all around. 

This too shall pass.