Land Clearing!!!!!!!!!!!

On Saturday, November 8th we were finally able to get going on the real work --- land clearing!! We were both so excited to get out to the land and actually work on it. We packed up our gear (and you know the Krug's have a lot of it!) and headed out Saturday morning. We parked in our normal spot, until we cut in our own driveway, in the cemetery driveway and got our working gear on. Keep in mind we were going to be operating power equipment so we had to put on some extra gear. Ah, who am I kidding?! We just look plain goofy in our gear no matter what the reason! :)




Silly outfits are becoming a theme of our land escapades. Ah well...good times. Of course, just as I suit up in my yellow rain bibs (which glide through the pricker bushes with the greatest of ease), boots, and safety goggles our future neighbor stops over to say hello! I'm sure she's wondering about her future neighbors...although she must have sensed that we're just country-bumpkins at heart. Knowing I would have no other option than the woods for potty breaks (something I had not quite figured out how to work around) she offered their bathroom to me any time, home or not, all within the first 5 minutes of meeting! Super nice people -- that's the country for yah!

Any way, Keith and I dragged our new chainsaw (Keith's newest baby), weed eater, gas cans, oil, water...you get the idea...into the middle of the land where we think we want the house to go. Our first goal is to clear the area around the future house location. We need to get the tall weeds, brush, and low tree limbs out of the way so we can really see how the land lays and slopes.

Mom and Dad Krug joined us mid afternoon and brought PB&J sandwiches, hot tea, and shortbread cookies -- GREAT lunch to eat after a few hours of hard work on a cool fall day!

We worked until dark and made a TON of progress for just a few hours. Keith cut low limbs and dead/small trees, I ran the weed eater and took down the tall weeds and small brush, Dad K clipped the small brush that was too big for the weed eater, and Mom K piled up the brush for future-chipping.


























It was a tiring day but it was so cool to stand in the spot where we started and be able to see clearly for a few hundred feet in any direction. We have another days work of this basic clearing before we can decide for sure where to place the house and driveway but we made some major progress. FUN DAY!

We're also enjoying the builder/design process. We've decided to have an architect draw up some very basic plans for us so that we can have each builder give us an estimate on the same thing. This seems like the only way to compare apples-to-apples, or anything close. So we're looking forward to that. So far one builder did a preliminary sketch based on our ideas and kind of missed the mark on the craftsman feel we're going for on the outside. We're hopeful an architect will be able to design us what we are envisioning. So stay tuned for that!


~LK