The First House!!

Do you see what happens to a man who spends too much of his time on the land? They go crazy!

Shed during a hot summer day in July.

Ashlee's garden

Ashlee's garden

Here is another view of the vineyard. This is looking almost East. There will be a couple more rows down hill later.

This is a good view of the garder looking up hill.

The beginnings of an orchard

The beginnings of a vineyard. Grass will be planted between the rows this fall.

The garden road is starting to sprout some love grass. This is going to help with the stability of the road this winter. You can see how green everything is.

This is one of the remnants of the "BIG STORM OF 2011!"

This is Ashlee looking into the basement of the house wondering how she got herself into this.

A view looking in at the footings being dug. The ran into some rock in the north east corner , but shouldn't be a problem.

Here is Ella getting used to her new living quarter the basement

Another view of the footings, this view is looking roughly west.

Just wanted to get a side shot of Ashlee's belly.

This is looking NE, this is the road dug in for the trucks to come in with their loads.

How convenient?

The driveway had a face lift. Lots of trees were taken down for the power lines. They are expecting us to pick them up.

A view of the fallen trees in the beginning of the driveway

This sign means they must have officially started building.

Mr Kinnaird showing his workers what to do

Everyone needs a little motivation and direction!

The kids CHIP in to move mulch pile

The old man on the tractor.  Matt standing by the Kubota awaiting a load of mulch to drive to the top

The new house will go here.  This is the view

another view of the view.  I think that snaggly tree will go.  As will the trash on the ground.

We are putting the house on this logging road.

Picking out the details

No pics here but we did spend the afternoon at Schumacher picking out the details of the house we are building.   Outside color, outside trim, gable end color, interior carpet, wall color, trim color, cabinets, countertops, vinyl, tile, cabinet tops, and I am probably leaving out a few other things, but the decisions we made in 2 or 3 hours usually takes us about 5 years to accomplish.  Stressful but fun.

After three days of chipping

The poor abused chipper. Most of the piles are gone.  The super pile in the corner is putting up a good fight.

Looking down from a potential house site

Lots of mulch piles.

Burning some of the small stuff that was too much trouble to put into the chipper

Another view from near the super pile in the corner looking down the bank.  I think the house will go pretty much where the fire pit is.

clearing a house site

Our friendly grounds crewman, Justin, brought his trackhoe

and a good sized chipper to help get rid of the brush and piles of trees and branches

This is where the house is going.

Looks like we are going to build a house on this hunk of land.  Of course we decided to put it in the trashiest area we could find.  First step is to take out the trash.  Last weekend the boys pitched in and spent a day helping cut up wood.  These piles are big and it is going to take some heavy equipment, which is on the way.

The old man in the hat is me

one of my favorite granddogs

  

so now that some dramatic changes are about to occur we will post more progress shots.  (hopefully there will be progress to report)