We visited the site often, even before there was any activity on our lot!

We kept trying to reassure ourselves: a) that we’d made the right decision to buy in Franklin, and b) that we’d selected the right lot, rather than one further in the culdesac.

Even before the building began, we were excited by the small things: Fresh bulldozer tracks in the dirt – evidence of leveling the land or plotting the corners, etc; A live meter added to the temporary electricity pole on our lot which signaled that they were finally about to start on our house.