Clearing the footprint for the house

Wedges cut from trees at pre-felling

Tagged trees coming down

Caterpillar into the woods

 

 

   

After the land finally dried out sufficiently, Tom the logger and the father and son team of Craig and Robert Mayea came in to do the yarding and excavating.

I loved watching the three of them work together.  They have worked with each other so many times [...]

Why we got such a late start in 2008

Richard Leonard and Robert Ilosvay, architects, Stewart Marsh, contractor and Aileen and I had all been up to look at the property in Summit Meadows in late 2007,  full of ideas and plans for the future.  Little did we know the winter of 2007-2008 would have record snow falls.
 
Since the first item on the agenda [...]