Bring on the Hard Labor!

Over the past couple of weeks a combination of Ryan, our friend Matt, Ryan's brother Derrick, and I have visited our new property a number of times. A couple weekends ago we attempted to find lot lines in a fairly unconventional and unsuccessful way, but for the most part we had just been enjoying wandering around our land and getting to know the area, and a couple of the neighbors. However, this past weekend Ryan decided it was high time we got those lot lines worked out. He spent hours on Friday night and Saturday morning researching and learning the best ways to go about doing this, using the only information he had, and on Saturday he set out with a compass, measuring tape and some marker ribbon to find those lines once and for all. 

After a successful line-defining trip on Saturday, Ryan was eager to get to work clearing some of the lot where we plan to put our driveway and finding the perfect homesite. I had made previous plans and was unfortunately missing from Sunday's activities, but Ryan and Matt made AMAZING progress! So, enough with all the words; it's time for pictures!

First and foremost, here is the plat for our land. At the top right you'll find Lot 3, our future home. (We're still working a name for it, but we'll get there.) Amazingly enough, our crazy awesome benefactors also own Lot 6 beneath our lot and we hope to purchase it from them one day to bring our property to a nice, round 5 acres.

Next, I'll show you a couple photos that I took from inside our property before any clearing was done. You'll see what I mean by heavily wooded. Although it's all fairly young growth (10 years or so), it's gone pretty far in that time! Also, you'll be seeing a number of my 'artsy fartsy' pictures through these as well, because I just can't help myself.

There's also a nice little creek that you can see on the plat, and some of it runs right through our lot. On the right here you can see a great little swimming hole for the dogs!

Now that you know what Ryan and Matt were facing on Sunday, I hope you'll be sufficiently impressed by the work they got done. The photos I showed don't quite do justice to the work they had to do at the edge of the road, where the trees were even thicker with underbrush. But here is a video of the amazing amount of work they did, followed by some photos of them working yesterday. We basically doubled the clearing for the homesite yesterday. The pictures aren't in any particular order, but you'll be able to see what got done.

 

 

 

 

 

  

And this is the final shot I took yesterday. It's a little tough to tell where everything is because it's a panorama, but to the top left is the driveway and everything else is the homesite.

Alright everyone, I know it was a lot of pictures but thanks for checking in! We'll continue to update as we make decisions and do more work on the land, so keep an eye out. :)