Progress Report After Four Days

Hi All,
Four days in and there has been a lot of work done. Behind the house that will be demolished there is a three room structure we affectionately call the crack house. A lot of work was done around the crack house to clean up all the trash and brush.

You have seen pictures of the lake but there is actually a small pond much closer to the existing house- currently a mosquito hatchery. The water from the spring runs into the pond and then overflows to a creek that runs to the lake at the back of the property. Both dams,( the one for the pond and the one for the lake) need to be repaired. Yesterday (Wednesday) and a little bit of today David and his crew fixed the pond dam.

Here's pretty much how the pond and dam looked when they started

 Here's David in his track hoe repairing the dam....

Here's the new dam, just waiting for a good rain or the spring to slowly fill the pond

Here's Jeff on the bulldozer clearing what was once a trail back to the home site

I left out that besides getting all the trash and brush cleared up the first couple of days they made a pad for the pole barn that will be going in a few weeks from now. By the end of the day today they had started clearing the area where the house and garage will go. It is amazing how much three guys on heavy equipment can get done in a day. Susan and I are still working on getting the wood floors out of the old house or otherwise we'd just sit and watch them all day.

That's it for now. Take care.
Brian