The Road More Traveled

I've been out of town for a few days this past week.  It was pretty exciting to get back and see how much progress had taken place while I was gone. 

Ollie looking down the long road toward the river.

Ed and his crew have made a road.  A long road.  


To do that, they dug a hole to get gravel out of which was then used to build the road base. The hole became two holes after he couldn't find the kind of gravel he wanted in the first hole. 

 Of course, the holes will become beautiful ponds after he's done with them.  


The ponds are located right where the two private roads connect and are on P. and D.'s property.  They look a little muddy and rough right now.  I don't think any of us were tempted to go skinny dipping, but the dirt will settle and the edges will be smoothed out.  It's going to be so pretty as you drive up to the houses. I still don't think I will be tempted to go skinny dipping. Let's just drop that subject and move on...

Future small pond.

There will also be a small pond on our property, just past the turn around.

Also...we got foundation walls!
 
That's the part that sits on top of the cement footings which were poured last week.  The short round cement things are the front porch supports.  To the left is the angled garage.
Behind the foundation is the river...about 150 feet away.

Mike and I went out last weekend and I watched while Mike moved a phone box which was too close to the road.  It took him about an hour to get his work done. Ollie and I just wandered all over the place and took photos and enjoyed being there.

Ollie watching Mike move
 the phone box.

Last night we took the boy's mom, Vella, out to the place to show her what's been happening. I think we got her stamp of approval or she was just really good and keeping any negative comments to herself.  She's always been pretty good at that and that one of the things that makes her the best mom in law on the planet.

We also spent some time figuring out exactly how the driveway will go from the turn around to our house and barn.  There's probably about another week of road work to be done. 



As you can see, there is always progress being made.  Sometimes it's just a little, sometimes it's big.  The exciting part is just around the corner...when the framing starts and we see the walls rise up out of the foundation.  Stay tuned....