Despite a beautiful week of weather, it seems there was no progress on the property.  Still waiting for an explanation of this.  Hoping everyone is OK.

Josh and I spent several hours on-site yesterday doing very fascinating things.

First, we flagged the driveway.

Josh was measuring and placing the flags as I called out the measurements to him from his plan.  If you squint really hard, you can see the orange flags.

I’m so glad he knows how to do these things.  I just told him I’d like 1) the driveway to curve around for a pretty approach to the house, 2) a place for people to park out front, and 3) a loop so it’s easy for people to get in and out without a 75 point turn (a challenge we have at our current house).  He takes this information and produces a lovely plan to make all of my driveway dreams come true.  I think I’ll keep him.

This is his “Why are you taking my picture?” face.

Because I’m so glad you’re my husband and a landscape architect!

It’s still hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that we are building a house, which will sit between these two piles of dirt in the near future.  Hopefully, this time next year we will be living in it and we’ll be able to have people over and give them hugs without fear.

In the meantime, we’re enjoying improving the property so it is beautiful for us and our future guests to enjoy.

Our second activity was cleaning up this hot mess:

Among this tangle of vines and trees are two dogwoods, a black cherry, and a cedar tree.  You wouldn’t know it except for the dogwood blooms.

Josh quickly got to work on this with his chainsaw. And before long, it looked like this:

Much better!

Josh hauling off all of the brush to the woods.  His truck looking like a Chia Pet.

While Josh did the heavy lifting, I reviewed the trail camera footage.

Not much action in the last few days except for Tom desperately searching for Jenny.  I think she may have moved to a different block…

Sorry, Tom.

Well, if my boots are any indication, I would call that a successful trip to the property.