Honey, Where's the Carport?

I actually gasped as I turned into our driveway the other day. The carport was gone! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!
This means we are one giant step closer to my studio construction and that the first major stage is done.
According to Bob and Joe, the roofing came off easily and even the beams came down in a straight forward manner. I know it was a lot of work, but it went pretty well. The particle board is now stacked up awaiting my pulling out the nails.

It's entertaining to think this tawdry little pile of particle board, with a think skin of roofing, was strong enough to withstand the rigors of winter. See those saw horses behind the pile? Bob and I spent about ten minutes this sweltering morning, transferring all the stacked beams (in the earlier photo) over to these saw horses so that there'd be a clear work area. Three minutes after we carefully piled the boards, there was a tremendous crash! as the sawhorses collapsed and the beams spilled to the ground. Fortunately, we were well out of the way and no intentional plant life was crushed (we do have Japanese maples and caster beans planted in that strip of poison ivy infested No-Man (or Woman's) Land).
So the next stage is to locate the septic tank cover and mark it and do a bit of excavation to assemble a foundation. Two sides of the foundation will be the blacktop that is previously existing and the house will be the fourth side. Interestingly, we thought for sure there must be some footing under the beams that held up the roof. But apparently when Joe and Bob had all the rafters off, Joe leaned up against the vertical and it started to fall over: they were simply sitting on the blacktop, sort of "friction fit" construction!
On a hotter and hazier note, it is really hot and hazy. The neighbors's have obviously taken leave of their senses as they are out MOWING their lawn. We stacked the ill-fated wood pile and then retreated to the air conditioned bedroom, where we had a matinee. Bob and I and Jules hunkered down and ate raspberries, plucked fresh from our garden (thank you Beatrice and John for the plants!). I'm signing off, though, as the room with the computer is not air conditioned and almost unbearable!