The Pour

Here it goes! I will get more pics up later of the final product! Our road base goes in today too so I will have more shots of the road!

The garage before the pour

Here is the gargae before the cement gets poured...it should be getting poured right this minute!

June 5th and why this is taking so long!

I have these to show you as to why we are so far behind on the build...as you can see on June 5th the snow finally started to melt and the rains never stopped. It has been 18 years since this has happened up there.
Here is Bobby only about a half hour after this started...it got much worse shortly after!
So, you can see why we had a delay! We couldnt get anything to dry out!

A much needed toy!

Here is the new toy/work horse! We love it and have already used it a bunch for moving trees to a cutting spot. Too bad we waited so long to catch up with progress!

Progress and putting up with the natives

As you can see, there are things happening up there now. Roads getting done, garage pad should be poured any day now.
This guy seems irritated with the progress...seems to think he was there first and has no plans to move out. Thats OK with us but he is gunna get himself hurt in all this construction! As you see behind him, lots more trees were cut down this weekend. Our buddies Kirk, Ben and Glen came and helped and the weekend before Chris and Gerhard were there to help. Seems the fireman has all the say on if we can build or not...sooo we cut more trees...

Our "deer" friend has taken a fond liking to this big dozer, usually is under it!

Whats been goin on!

Here is Izzy, protesting the puppy we babysat for Bob, he sold it to a friend of mine in Utah. We thought Izzy was a handfull till "tug" AKA "Marly" came along!
Aint he just the sweetest thing you ever did see?
Abby said "whatever, I aint even lookin at you people"

Homeless

Well, it's official, we are homeless. This shed is the closest thing we have now to a dwelling of any sort! The house sold and we are out by August 14th. We will be camping next to this shed on our land as we build....good news is that we will begin framing the garage next week!!!!!

Still tons to do!

Even though our construction is falling into the 6 week behind area....we still have tons to do. We are up there clearing more trees and building a temporary dog kennel. Hopefully our road will get done by next week, our concrete can get started and we can get this show on the road!
We found out our well that is already there will be a hassle to tap into...costing as much as it will to drill a new one. So we are having another well drilled. Good news is the water is only about 60 feet down and there is plenty of it!

Getting ready to say goodbye

We are getting ready to say goodbye to the house we have worked so hard on and made nice for the next guy!



These shots were taken right before our open house last Sunday.

Chain saw freak

Brad gets all dramatic with the saw's. They were NOT running or we would have worried. Bob and Erin model in front of ONE of the many slash piles we have going...this is the biggest one by far!

Erin has a job now too, she is collecting all of the rocks and making piles so we can use them around the front of the new house...she finds bugs and worms and gets distracted though! A bit like her mom!