S/V Good Morning Vietnam: Things are happening!

Hi All!
Finally things are starrting to happen here. Some expected, some not so much.

Our next door neighbors to the west came to visit one day.

Our neighbor to the west is a Texas A&M Research Center. Some of the inmates came to see if the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence.

Then something from much farther North came calling. Snow and a record low temperature for Kilgore, Texas.

Officially it was 10 degrees in Kilgore

This was day II after some of the snow melted. We got between 2" and 3".

This past weekend we had several expected visitors. Susan's niece Honey came by on her way to Tennessee. Somehow we managed to not get any pictures. Our friends Richey and Ankie came over from LA (lower Alabama) to deliver our 'new' tractor! What a beauty she is!

1955 Ford Model 600

It's only Wednesday but it's already been a busy week. Monday the lumber for framing the house was delivered.

The guys drilling our new water well drilled 414' and got water on Tuesday.

Wednesday (today) the well guys got the well casing put in, the guys putting the septic tank in dug the hole, dropped the tank in and covered it up and the guys Susan and I are going to "help" frame the house started drawing on the slab so we'd know where the walls are going. This process is a lot more difficult than I expected. We also found some errors where pipes were put in the concrete. Some rooms are going to be a bit bigger than originally drawn while others are going to be a bit smaller. But it is all working out fine.