It's official!!! We have finally begun. Wade and I started Monday morning... First thing we did was hook up a Time Lapse Camera that hopefully, if we read the instructions right and programmed it correctly, should take a picture every 24 hours for the next year.  And then we stood, stared and scratched our heads. Finally we looked at each other shrugged and said well let's just start and see where we go from here. For the last 3 days we have been using the Rotary Hammers and have just drilled holes, lots and lots of holes.  I have some stuff ordered that will be here by Friday (hopefully). The stuff is called Dexpan. It is a compound that you mix and pour into the holes and if it goes according to planned, it will expand and break the rock out for us (hopefully right where we want and not were we don't) saving us ALOT of drilling and chipping out. If it doesn't work then we will have to resort to honey combing the rock really close together and then chipping out with a jack hammer.
          Grandpa decided he wanted to build the dirt up against the rock and so we could work from the  ground. He felt this would be more productive so we're trying it out. I wanted to establish the nose and face shape first so David built the dirt up to about even with the mouth and we're going from there. I'll post a pic when there's visible progress happening.

 I'm so lucky to be working with Wade this summer. He will be a senior this year. So i know this is a golden time.  Oh and something we're super happy about...we are in full shade clear until 11! What a blessing!