Site Prep April 29, 2026

Ground broke this week.

The equipment came in Tuesday morning. The footprint of the home is taking shape in the slope.

A dozer working the cleared pad at Oakridge, framed by spring oaks at the edge of the treeline.

Tuesday morning the equipment arrived. By afternoon the dirt was moving. The footprint of the home is now visible from the access road as a stepped earthwork tiered into the slope.

What will be foundation in three weeks is right now a set of mounds and ledges. The pad gets walked tomorrow with the surveyor before the foundation crew lays out forms next week.

The lot has been waiting since last summer. From here on, the home shows up.

An excavator and skid steer staged on the lot Tuesday morning.

The home’s footprint emerging as a stepped earthwork tiered into the bluff slope.

A wooden stake and red surveyor flag marking the corner of the foundation layout.

Two-toned subsoil and topsoil mounds staged at the south edge of the cleared pad.

Spring prairie grass in the foreground with an excavator soft-focus on the pad behind.

Excavator tracks pressed into fresh subsoil along the new access cut.