Sunday, February 11, 2007

Progress on Overrun Acres


We actually have one house type room now. This is the Ebay and Amazon workroom. There are no windows on the side because that will be covered by shelving. In the future, should we have to house a caretaker, windows could be added. The underpinning will be added at some uncertain point in the future. The steps are what the builder calls "Old People Steps" with wide treads and a low rise. Several of our relatives may want to use these when visiting.

The picture with the piles of boards and the one with the backhoe is how way too much of our place looked before one wonderful day last week when the John Deere showed up. When the kids were little Dave often said that we needed a Super Dooper Pooper Scooper to manage our household. So this day we finally had one visit--it is not ours. It was wonderful to get rid of all this debris, fix the driveway, and clear about an acre of land behind the house. This equates to roughly ten to twelve years of progress when we do it. Or maybe longer, since we have yet to clear an acre of land.

I would like to note here that this is not being written by David R. Snow, as it states. The new blogger does not seem to allow me to have an individual signin, a situation which I will have to explore further. Chances are good that ONE of the readers of this will quickly respond to explain the obvious to me.

I need one of these machines for the inside of the house. The operator (that is the owner of the machine, not Dave) actually got that pile he is climbing all cleaned up in just a few minutes.

Little Bear helped supervise, having recovered at great expense from her bout with Cat Scratch Fever. We are thankful she is well again and able to work. She does miss the bits of meat she gulped down with the antibiotics and steroids in them a couple of times a day.

Thankfully this is a picture from the past, and hopefully we will have no more huge piles of stuff.

Right.