Trail that Dana blazed up the mountain. We need this path to truck soil up to our apple trees as they are being planted. As the weather warms up, we have been run out by ticks. In one place alone, I spotted and exterminated at least 7 ticks before leaving the area. Of all these ticks spotted, we have not had a tick burrow in us for weeks (-I do believe angels are helping us with this, because petitions have been made to God regarding this subject.-)

These wild flowers are blooming in various locations on the property, they are called Pansy Violets or Chicken Foot Violets.

We were so excited to get our first fruit tree in the ground! This particular tree is a Santa Rosa Dwaft plum. We chose to plant it at the bottom of the easement on the left side of the road.

The house building project has resumed, after waiting several days for a clear day! Here you can see we put up some of the framing to the front door, and mud room.

Hi all. We had misplaced our camera, and then we found it in the rain. Posts are so much more fun with pictures, so this has prevented us from posting. We are letting our camera dry. It was in the case, but it rained for three days, so we're not sure how much water got inside.

Anyway, Dana and I have been working at a local Supermarket for a week now. We were able to each get part-time positions and work the same hours, and we praise God for this opportunity.

Please pray that we would get more accomplished around the property; it feels like we take a step to take 2 steps backwards.

Matt is feeding our chickens oat meal. Normally you don't feed chickens premium rolled oats. However, these oats aren't fit for human consumption; they have racoon slober on them. The metal barrel in the left background is for dumping our fecal matter. The camper shell in the right background is the chickens coop.

Plants that the Wienholds gave us. 12 plants that consist of 6 cabbages, and 6 different varieties of tomatoes.

Cutting fallen trees into log rounds. This is one of the locations of our gardens, so we are clearing everything to get the area ready. Also notice the lush green in the background; it is quite beautiful here in the Spring time. We plan to post more pictures of the Spring beauty soon.

Our PVC frame went up this afternoon.

Hang out on the top of the hill side next to a favorite tree.

A beautiful sunny day for hanging laundry!

Our shower facility that Matt constructed out of fallen wood. We had a fun time together collecting it from the property surrounding us.

Matt and I nailing up the floor boards of our quansit hut.

Matt felling a tree

Pruning for the burn pile.

Construction Update

Floor joists are half up.

Floor joists are fully up.

Completing nailing and sealing our floor boards.

Reconstruction

Building again after disassembly. We have half the floor joists up; and this time, all praise to God, it is square! Dana operated the level most of this project.

OUR DINING ROOM

Cyinder blocks doubling as our dining table and chairs.

Lumber-jack Wanna-Be

Sharpening my trusty axe with a rusty file.

Axe in one hand, cell phone in the other. Getting tips on tree-felling from the father-in-law.

"Uhhh...On second thought, maybe I won't fall the tree just yet. I mean, look at the lean on that tree."

Clearing Around Our Dwelling Site

When we started building on our new site, I was in such a hurry, I didn't clear enough peremeter to easily walk beside the posts. We decided to take a little more time and make sure we had good access all around the building.

I am prying on a tree to brake its roots.

Dissassembly

We decided to dissassemble our floor joists and rim that we had errected. We felt a lot better about starting over to get it square from the floor.