Jack, hammer please.

Now the fun really starts. The highlighted part of the picture below is the top of a massive concrete wall that is basically holding up the back of what's left of the house. Starting this Monday, the crew will carefully cut through this concrete wall to make an opening big enough for a digger to get through to the back yard to dig out a big hole for the back of the new house and for additional concrete footings that will hopefully keep the new house in place for at least another 60 years.

We will be lucky if the neighbors still talk to us in 3 weeks when all the digging is over.