Footing stakeout, soil bearing report, and cribbing package delivery

By some miracle, everything this week went exactly as scheduled.  I can't recall the last time this actually happened.  Despite the unexpectedly accurate scheduling, I've still failed to get my footing poured before the winter heat season hits us on Sunday.  

In these photos, the survey crew is back to hammer pins in the ground at key locations for the basement walls.  They've also marked the height of top of footing, this dictates how deep the footing will be.  If the excavator does a rough job, a significant amount of extra concrete could be used filling in low spots, or even worse, the footing could be inadequate if there are high spots.  Just as the survey crew left, we saw the lumber yard show up and drop off a large pile of wood and rebar.  Very productive morning, we just need that soil bearing report and we can start the footing.