The first house is coming right along!

View from above on the driveway

Some terracing work for the yard

More terracing, a work in progress

John working hard planting

Matt burning brush

View from below

View from below

Barbara burning brush

Side view from driveway

From above, where door will be

A shot of Justin's immobile front loader
Close up of top of concrete wall
This is uphill side of house looking south west
This is up hill side of house looking south east
Pregnant Ashlee looking at the plans trying to figure out if this is really supposed to be a house.

View from below the house. These are the concrete wall just freshly poured.

Matt is still crazy.  (see earlier post) but his momma is proud of all the protective gear

Barbara's bottle tree catching all the evil spirits blowing up the slope

Matt's brush pile.  Wood from massive clearing effort on orchard

Footings are in

marking the corner

Swiss craftsmen built these forms.  I am impressed with their efforts

July 15th hole in the ground

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!