Verna and I went out to the construction site where our contractor is building our new house. I walked up the little hill at the east side of our property and snapped images of the site. We were there at roughly the same time each day, Monday through Thursday, mid to late morning.

The top panel in the composite image is of the work done on day one, the day of the groundbreaking. The entire foundation trench was already complete. This time of the year in Arizona, they get to work early and get the work done before daytime temperatures become very hot.

Image - Days one through four - click on the thumbnail image to enlarge

The second panel, day two, shows the nearly completed form for the foundation concrete pour. The crew used a level laser projector to ensure the forms were all at the same height.

The third panel, day three, shows the completed foundation forms and the rough blackwater plumbing. We asked for a blackwater dump to be available for our RV pad so it is available outside the foundation behind the master bath. You can see the sewer vent (the long vertical pipe) extending upwards near the RV connection just outside the foundation.

Today, day four, we stopped to get a final panorama of the progress. Inside the frame, the ground has been leveled in preparation for the concrete slab to be poured.

Verna and I are headed back to California for a few weeks to take care of personal business and family matters. We plan to return to Arizona after the Labor Day Holiday to track progress and to continue with the transition to the Copper State.

Just as we got off of I-10 this afternoon in Ehrenberg, AZ, Verna snapped this image of the Colorado River with a beautiful mountain range in the distance. I cropped her image to render this nice panoramic image. Click on the thumbnail above to see the full-sized panorama.

Our builder in Arizona went out to our new lot and installed some stakes to mark the corners of the new house. We met with him and discusses some of the options available to us. While we were there, I took several images of the lot to stitch together into this panoramic view from the east view of the building pad to the north view. Hopefully, we will be able to post more panoramas an progress on the new house is made. Click on the thumbnail to see the whole panorama, stakes and all.

We had some spare time today, so we decided to take a drive out to Lake Pleasant in North Maricopa County, Arizona. It was really too hot to have a picnic like we originally intended, so we drove up to the visitors center and took some pictures. I made this panoramic image that shows only a portion of the lake from Bass Bay on the left to the New Waddell Dam on the right. Click on the thumbnail image for the full panorama - remember to use the scroll bars to pan the image left and right.

When we landscape our new Arizona home, I will make sure that the colorful Beaver Tail cactus is included. I love those hot pink flowers in May. Click on the image to enlarge.

I’m a couple days late for Flag Day, but I’ll share this photo that Verna took in Wickenburg during our May visit to the Wickenburg, AZ, Chamber of Commerce. The “Out Wickenburg Way” motto seen on the town flag is also the name of a website about the town and what’s happening there. Click on the image to enlarge.

Today, we closed escrow on the Arizona lot where we’re going to start construction on our new desert home. Earlier in the month, I took a series of images which I stitched together to form a 360° panoramic image. Click on the thumbnail segment below to see the entire panorama in the image viewer.