Forest to Homesite...Day 4

I think we are starting to dream about trees and lumber and brush at this point.  As we begin another day of clearing land with the help of Scott and Steve were are getting down to the last few trees.  It is April 28th in these pictures and the end is getting in site.  I think we have already taken down enough trees to build 3 houses so I hope we will be done soon. 



Scott and Steve clearing some brush.




If you look really close you can picture the house right here.



Eric hauling another log.

Steve limbing another tree.

Firewood anyone???

If only all the branches would magically fall off on the way down.

Scott dropping a tree...



There it goes...



Falling...



It was almost like you were there watching it fall.

Aubrey didn't want Coleton to get cold when we went out to check on the boys so we put him in her jacket and sweatshirt...It must have been ok with him because he didn't bite her.  :)

Forest to Homesite...Day 3

When I said it is a forest I really mean it.  There are a lot of trees that have to come down to make room for the house.  When we were walking around and all the trees were standing it didn't seem like so many but when you start taking them down it adds up fast.  These pictures are from April 27th, Scott stopped over on his way home from work and we started dropping, bucking and stacking trees and brush then.....repeat...again and again.  Yikes our saw bolts and bush pile are really getting big. 

And like I said in a previous post...Eric cannot run the skidsteer with the "help" of Coleton or Jazmine.

Water Refill...

Now that we are out at the property and we don't have a well in yet we had to think of a new way to get water for the camper.  We can go a little over a week with the on-board tank before we run out and need a refill.  Thankfully we have friends that have just about everything there is.  So we ventured over to Lawrence's again and loaded up his tank and filled it up.  It holds about 300 gallons of water and that is going to be about 4 or more refills for us.  I know many of you have wondered and asked so this is the secret to water.  When we need a refill we just pick up the tank with the skid steer, hook up the hose and let gravity fill it up.

Grading the Driveway...Round 2

The driveway was pretty much already in on the property already.  So all we did was take down a few trees and overhanging branches along it.  Then we started the many passes back and forth with the tractors and the grader we borrowed from Lawrence to start packing everything down.  Somehow I get the feeling that this isn't going to be the only few times that we are making the trip back and forth grading the driveway.  So far we have had Rick and Eric (again forgot the pictures) and Scott and Eric. Thanks to everyone for the help!  These pictures are from Scott and Eric on April 25th after taking down a bunch of trees.

Forest to Homesite...Day 2

As you can see in some of the pictures we have a lot of trees to take down where we are going to be putting the house.  We have already spent two days working on taking down trees with Eric's parents (you know when I forgot to take pictures).  Every night we work on it a little more and more, slowly taking down and cleaning up tree after tree.  On April 25th, with the help of Scott we took down a few more of the big pines.  Below is an action sequence that my photographer in training, Aubrey, caught.  Not to bad...if you look at the big pine in the center you can see if falling in the second picture, and on the ground in the third. 

Coloring Time...

Since I knew this was going to be longer than your average camping trip I made sure that I packed as much for the kids as I could.  So we have tons of toys, games, puzzles, drawing and coloring stuff and of course the Cozy Coupe now.  So what to do on an afternoon while we are waiting for lunch to cook...color book time.  Aubrey, Coleton and I all sat down at the table for some nice relaxing coloring...well some coloring at least.  Coleton had more on his hands and face than anywhere else, but in the end he did color a really pretty picture.