Even more progress!

I went up to the property to meet our contractor to stake out the aproximate locations of the barn and the house and the ADU. Since it was a nice day, I drove up to the top of Mt Walker to see if our land was visible. Since Mt walker is clearly visible from our property, I thought this would be easy. Too bad I don't have a camera with a telephoto lens! Be sure to click on these pictures, they blow up really big!This first picture, I think I missed it, looks like Pope timber land or National forest up against the foothills. But I also think lot 13 is close to the center of this firt pic. After much debate, we "think" we've identified it in this picture, as well as one of our neighbors' lot, 13 that was cleared last winter.

Daniel S, did I get it right? Even if this is not it, the view of the general area was spectacular!

We had our contractor save as much wood as he could for future firewood. I think we have a bit of work "cut" out for us here....

Dan made tremendous progress on the grading! We're just amazed at how smooth he got it.

This picture is looking North, the house site is near the top of that hill. We're thinking the chicken coop should go to the North of that lone hemlock tree. To the right, where the hill angles down will be our orchard.

We want the chicken coop close enough to that so the birds can be put in there to clean up any fruit that falls.

These 2 pictures below have labels on them marking approximate locates of buildings. You can only read them though if you click and make the picture bigger.

We're still working on getting the right grade for the barn, ensuring we have enough slope away from both sides where the horses, sheep & goats will be. We should be able to start barn construction this fall!