So I’m a little behind… but now that my camera batteries are all charged I can start catching up a bit. A lot has been happening on our property since I last posted on the 17th, and here’s the first installment of pictures. These pictures are from when we were up on April 20th – 22nd.

First off, here’s the view from the stump pile. Not much has changed from this perspective, as you can see.

However, if we go over to the driveway, you can see some of the work that was done during the week. (Isn’t the escaping toddler cute?)

And now you can pretend you are driving down our driveway, towards the parking and building pads.

And here’s the parking pad

There’s a bit of an elevation difference between the parking and building pads (about 4-5 feet)

And we have some impressive clay deposits

But at least our clay comes in attractive and varied colors.

We went up onto the property last weekend and got to see the beginnings of our driveway and building pad. Unfortunately, with the rain we’ve had this last week the central part of our property is a bit of a mud pit, but we were still able to walk around and get some pictures.

This first picture is standing next to the stump pile, from just a little bit forward of where the second picture was taken in the post below.  I’m going to try to keep taking pictures from this point as a reference as we progress.

This will be the entrance to our driveway.  They’ve started to cut the driveway lane, but this part of the driveway will require some fill to level it out.

This is looking down the main part of the driveway towards the building pad.

Here’s the house building pad.  They will be carving and leveling out an area in between those little white flags stuck in the ground.

Here’s a closer picture of that big pile of trees in the above picture.  That’s Matt standing on the pile with Gregory in the backpack.  These trees were pushed out by the heavy equipment as  they carved the driveway.

This is standing on the other side of the pile, looking up the driveway to the middle/right and up towards the stump pile (where the first picture was taken) on the left.

The big pile of trees is on the left

Matt’s parents are up in the area right now and they sent us some pictures of the property. A couple of weekends ago we had some people come in and cut down some trees so that we could have some more clear area and sunlight.

Here’s the pile of the logs

This is standing at the road and looking down towards the house site. This is not where the driveway will go, but this is where machinery has been accessing the property.

And this is above the house site, looking towards where the house and garden will be built. You can see all the trees that have been cut down to open up the clearing. The stumps will be pushed and dug out by the heavy equipment when they come in to cut the driveway and building pad.