"Chuckwagon" it is!

We have exciting news!  The private road names got approved.  The road along the canal is River Ranch Lane and for the road the houses are on, we had hoped to use Charlie Horse, but they wouldn't let us use it because there was something too similar. Our second choice was  Chuckwagon Lane.  They approved that one!  It has the boys' dad's name in it, which was something we really wanted to incorporate as a tribute to him.  He would love this place!!  
And my brother in law said, "You girls are great cooks, you cook a lot and you feed a crowd... so that's perfect!"

Time to go do some more staking out.
And yes..all of these "stakeouts" are do make me hungry for a good steak!





The day after the trench episode, the four of us went out to do some more measuring and staking.   We met there pretty early in the morning and figured it would take an hour or two.  One thing I'm learning as we go along is that EVERYTHING takes longer than we expect it to. 

 

It was a beautiful morning and the setting is so pretty, I didn't mind spending my whole morning...and early afternoon...helping to mark where the house and barns will go so that the excavator can come clear them off in the next few days. 



We took our dog, Ollie out to sniff around the place and he loved it!  

I noticed something in the nest up in this tree and after watching it for several minutes, I saw what looked like a branch move!  There's a goose nesting up there!  It would stick it's head out straight as an arrow and be completely still.  Great camouflage! It will be fun to keep and eye out for the goslings when they hatch!



As for updates on our overall progress, things are moving along.  The power, cable and phone lines have all been put in the trench and the trenches should all be back filled today.  The barn and house sites should be cleared off today as well.  Foundations should be going in soon but we will have to hold off on actually framing just a little bit while we wait for the road to go in and that looks like it's about two weeks out.  Which is okay for us because we are waiting about that long for our building permit to be approved.