The barn begins!

The barn begins!  A loader came out yesterday and scraped off a (roughly) foot of topsoil from the area where our new barn will be built.  The view at right (click to embiggen) is looking to the west.

This is over two months later than originally planned, but ... it's started.  The contractor promises completion 115 days after actual start, so that makes our tentative completion date around Thanksgiving...