With a week of dry weather at the beginning of October, Mike was able to scrape and ditch the driveway. This is the very first step in building a driveway and a nice one to get out of the way this fall. It would have been impossible to do in the spring when everything is […]
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Clearing the Building Site, Continued
Mike continued the clearing project all through September with his tractor and the rented bulldozer. In addition to making room for the house, we also needed to open up space for the big workshop barn that will sit on the edge of the field, and begin to carve out the driveway. Thankfully we had a […]
Clearing the Building Site
At the end of August the building site clearing project started. In order to determine exactly where our house was going to be, we had to first find out where the soil would perk. Since sandy soil is so rare on the peninsula, it’s extremely common for people to be forced to have holding tanks […]
A Blank Slate
So, we own some land! To us, this is a really ideal spot and we couldn’t be more excited to make this place our home. What next? We save up our money, and sell just about everything we own, so that we can build a house and a couple barns. And in the meantime, we’re […]
A Special Spot
This place…Fourty acres of beautiful south-sloping land, with 22 of the acres forested in pine and hardwoods, and the rest an old hay field. In the spring the forest understory is densely freckled with princess pine, fiddlehead ferns and wild flowers–most noticeably the strikingly white Trillium grandiflorum. We first saw the field during a random drive […]