the road we'll be taking

We met with the young man who's going to be taking care of all of our site work last Monday afternoon, and we're pretty excited about being able to have him do the work for us. He was supposed to start work on Thursday, but when we came to the land on Wednesday for an afternoon of hauling some firewood out of our cutting area (all that's left for us to clear is the septic area) we found the beginning of the driveway starting to come along! We were impressed! We've been busy with other things the last few days, so tomorrow will be a big day to hopefully see a lot more work done, including some destumping of the driveway and buidling site, and the roughed in driveway. We'll see what we see tomorrow and give an update...hopefully not waiting two weeks in between updates, as we seem to have slipped into the habit of doing.

It's a bit hard to tell from the picture, but the driveway follows the edge of our field and will curve slightly to the left to form a parking area with a turnaround. We're having a very narrow gravelled drive lead from the parking area to the side door of the mudroom right off the kitchen. The driveway area will stay to the left of the big trees in the center of the picture and the house itself will be located almost directly behind the big trees in the middle, but about 75 feet back behind them. Our stack of firewood logs has grown literally enormous! We think we may have three years of heat stacked there, given that we're insulating so well and maintaining a smaller sized home.

We'll have to post another update after we see what there is to be seen tomorrow afternoon. The fellow doing the sitework, Derek, thinks that it should be done in two weeks, three weeks at the outside if weather is difficult (meaning a lot of rain). However, we had a ton of rain this past week and this week's weather forecast is for some cloudiness early on, and then some warmer, pleasant, tomato weather for later in the week, which should prove a boon for not only beans and tomatoes, but also for cement curing! It still seems relatively like a dream that we'll be putting hammers to nails in the not so distant future!!