Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The evolution of our new neighborhood

Last year, March 2009, our new neighborhood (subdivision) was a piece of land overgrown with trees and weeds.
Last fall, the new road looked like this:


The entryway to our driveway from the new road looked like this: (the large round cement thing is a drainage cistern)

Our lot looked like this:




Joern surveyed the neighborhood from above:


In the past few weeks, there has been quite a bit of work on this area. They are workin hard on building the new road, putting in curbs, and prepping the whole area for building.
We visited the site 2 weeks ago.

Here's the new road:



The cement drain that will be at the entrance to our driveway:


And Joern could stand on the street this time to survey the new neighborhood:


Joern's parents told us that there was a lot of noise and other action last Friday. So, we went again to visit.

The road now:

(Note the curb that is now lining both sides of the road.)

Here's the same drainage cistern:


And this time, my car decided to practice driving up towards its new home:

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