Finally, back to progress

The water finally drained enough to get back to work. Trenches were started today (Monday 23 November) for the footings and foundation. But even if the water was not on the surface, the water table was still very high, and the trenches kept filling with water. The first picture was mysterious to me at first. . . the yellow arrow shows some interesting crib supports adjacent to one of the supports for the house )(13' above). Come to find out that the trench of two sides of that crib caused the soaked ground to givec way under the support and that corner of the house dropped about 10". Seeing how they were going to fill that trench with the supports in place was another mystery. 18 yards of cement later, we have footings and the first set of piers for the front porch. Now they point out that one of the cribs is exactly where an internal pier needs to be placed. So the raiser will bbe back out again to make an adjustment.