Lattices around perimeter of house

Now that the house is permitted, we can get homeowner's insurance.  The agent came to inspect the house (just the exterior) and he told us that the perimeter of the house has to have some kind of lattice or fence underneath, in part to keep animals from going under the house, but mostly to keep people from putting a lot of junk under the house and creating a fire hazard.

For the past several days, work shifted from the new structure to the lattices.  We decided to use a simple horizontal lattice made of 1x4s. 

The side of the house (with a nice view of the new window trim)

Behind the house by the gas tanks

The other side of the house

The soil that we have is very rich and light, but also full of rocks (we live on a volcano), so any soil we dig up from the yard requires a lot of de-rocking before we can use it.  Gardens here also have to be raised somewhat to keep out snails and slugs that can transmit rat lungworm.  So to speed things up we finally gave up and got a load of soil. This is one truck load of soil.  To the very left are some planter boxes that Mitch made and will be used for the first plantings.