Point of No Return

Here we are.  I knew, as an intellectual exercise, that some kind of mechanical entity was going to come this week to take apart the house I've lived in for the past almost-nine years.  Knowing that and looking at this are two entirely different things, boy-howdy.

I went to yoga this morning, and decided to drive by the house on my way back to the apartment, just to see what's up.  I see this as I walk up the driveway:

What a curious pile of debris!

And then round the corner to take in the full view:

Oh, right.  That's my house.

So in the time between sunrise this morning and about 10:15, I had time to get the kids ready for school, take them to school, and go to one yoga class.  In that time, one dude with a bobcat dismantled the back of my house completely.

Hi, Bobcat.

You've been busy, Bobcat.

And after that, I had a shower, picked up one child from school, and we had lunch with friends.  And in that time period, the bobcat dismantled the little green garage there, became king of the mountain, and started loading bits of my house into a dumpster.

I think I should have mixed feelings about this, and I think there's a wee small pinging in my heart that is keening for the room that I brought my babies home to, but mostly I'm finding all of this massive destruction really cool and exhilarating.  

Look, for instance, at this:

So, yesterday, they sawed my house in half.  Look!  It's amazing! Someone took a regular old Skilsaw and just drew a line on my house--they cut through interior walls, exterior walls, roof, beams, everything.  Cut it neatly in half.  And then today they brought a giant thing to scrape off the half that we don't want.  It's crazy--like cutting your waffle very neatly into perfect squares, then eating it by burying your face in your plate and gnarfing up all of the perfect bits.

Precision slicing

Gnarf, gnarf.

Are you tired of extra-large pictures of destruction yet?  I am not.  I'll attempt to moderate myself and leave you with these until I'm able to think something more coherent than RAWR!!  Maybe they'll let me drive the bobcat.