For those of you who think nothing is going on because you
see no walls going up for a house, let me assure you, things are
progressing. I didn’t realize myself,
the amount of work and time it takes to develop on undeveloped land. However, along with the barn, we have a water
meter and electric pole now. Things that
are under our control such as getting our land ready with pens, fences, dirt
work, etc. are slowly but surely getting done. If only my country boy had all day, every
day. But, we stay busy! We changed our plans. Again.
So, we are waiting for our final draft. We want to make sure it is just right. After all, this will be our home for the rest of our lives.
Now that fence posts have been set, country boy has been
welding on half chain links to run the wire, and finishing up the braces. Those of you who may not be familiar with building fence, braces have to be made in order to stretch the wires. Otherwise, the fence won't be sturdy.
My job is to watch for little fires that may occur as he welds.
And obviously take lots of pictures.
And obviously take lots of pictures.
This was a neat photo op of cattle grazing at the top of the hill.
The view from the edge of what will be the horses pen/pasture. As I may have mentioned before, we are fencing off a section with the small pond just for the horses. Our home will be within another area, with the animals taking the rest.
Who can resist taking pictures of God's work.
So glad I got to catch this beautiful sunset.
Here's the man with the plan. My dad. One of the best!
We have spent many hours working with him out on this land, among others. Working cattle, fixing fence, clearing trees, etc. Its been a blessing to get to do that with him. Great memories.
Cutting the pipe for a brace and talking it over.
Setting in the pipe, getting it ready to weld.
Very blessed that my husband is a man of many talents.
He was looking down the soon to be fence line after finishing the brace.
Deep in thought about how he wants this fence line. I sure love this man.
So another fun thing we do at the 80 is take all the dogs. As you may have noticed, we have 3. Two Corgi's, Dally and Annie, and a Husky, Kodi. Dally is our house dog, she's sort of a princess diva. Her hobbies are to stay by my side, make me happy, and look as sweet as she really is. Annie is her litter mate, she's basically country boys dog. And Kodi is drummer boys dog. We love to take them from their temporary pen at our temporary home and let them run. Needless to say, they love it too! Annie and Kodi's hobbies are being with us humans, running and swimming.
Best Friends
Little Corgi legs, she don't care.
I'm amazed she can float, let alone swim!
With all that hair, cooling off in the horse pond is the best!
Back to work.
So we had an old dump back behind the barn.
Notice I said HAD, check that off the to do list!
All loaded up, ready to take away.
Dad and country boy cleaned the old dump out with the backhoe and dozer.
It may look like work, but I believe they like running these big toys.
Break time!
Cooling off in the big pond.
My motto for this place, "A little red dirt never hurt".
Don't go too far, Annie!
Such a beautiful place. As you can see, there is no lack of a nice place to cool off.
Some wild flower, I have no idea, I just thought it was pretty.
Our Woodpecker family
Dally, hanging out in the backhoe bucket.
Doing a little landscaping after cleaning up the old dump.
Dad, on the tractor with box blade, doing some dirt work around the horse pond.
My sweet, caring, wonderful mom. She's always been there for me. Never asks for nothing, always giving of herself. I'm truly blessed to have her in my life!
My country boy done about all he could do for the day.
This weekend our drummer boy will be rodeoing, but we hope to get time in to cut more posts for the horse pen and gate. Till next time. Be Blessed!
