Progress Report #10

September 7, 2008...Had a lot of unexpected help today!!! What a blessing! (Photo quality is poor...we had the brush fire going and I was shooting through the smoke). Here's Bob's wife, Belinda, carrying logs. And, believe it or not, folks...she's done the "buy a chunk of land-cut down trees-build a house" thing before (with her husband, of course!)...AND lived to tell about it! I guess there's hope for us!

Left to right: Bob, Joe, and Rich in the background with the chainsaw...

The guys again with Luke, this time...back and forth to the fire...back and forth to the fire...back and forth to the fire...b a c k a n d f o r t h.... z z z z z z z z z z z z z.

Here's Joe, trying to decide where to fell his next victim:

Victim felled. On to dissection.

And, here goes another...watch the "skyline..."



A-H-H-H-H...the fruit of many hours of hard work. This wooded area is on the left as you turn right into our homesite. Our master bedroom will look out onto this small grouping of trees, and I have some ideas for landscaping this area, just below where the wood is stacked.

Looking up towards this area, you can see more of the trees in this photo. There is a "V" shape where the driveway turns to the right, and an old logging road continues up the mountain. It is in this "V"-shaped area that I intend to do some landscaping.

Perhaps we're not "getting" this whole wood-stacking thing...or maybe God just wants to keep us humble...but the pile below WAS neatly stacked...the night before I took this picture! Thankfully, it's in an out-of-the-way location...no need to re-stack it right now. (I might just save that for a "you boys are drivin' me crazy...GO STACK THAT WOOD!" type of day). (Not that I ever have any...really...I don't...but, just in case!)

And, honestly, folks...who WOULDN'T follow this guy into the woods? What a blessed gal I am!!!
Stay tuned,
Kris