It's amazing. In only a few short weeks the land is transforming, and becoming even more beautiful.
Where the greenery is dying off for Winter, more of the creek, and the natural ponding on the marshland, is showing, I love the way the Winter sun shimmers on the ripples. It's absolutely gorgeous.
The work is slow and laborious, since I am actually no physical help whatsoever. Despite having some help with mowing and filling in ruts, there is a good half of the property still to mow. Hubby has also started pulling up the broken front fencing, so that he can clear that area there of the grass and kudzu. We will eventually have a black railing fence down there but for now, we just need it cleared to plant the roses and gardenia that will be inside the new fence. We've been taking some of plants over every time we visit, along with some of the rocks for the (eventual) rockery area near the pond.
Friday, with it being 70 degrees, hubby took me some more gardenia cuttings off of our bushes, and I got them set up, in my plastic jugs with plant food and rooting powder, to get them started up. I'm pretty successful with the gardenias.
We've decided that we will try to start a "farm business" over there, so gardenias will def be one of my plants to be selling when the time comes.
It's been a fast few weeks of money going out, as we plan and start on getting things done out there.
The first thing is def the well, we need a water supply, so we paid a deposit there and are waiting on the guy receiving the permit to go ahead and drill it for us.
We had some issues with the original company that was going to build our barn, but the lady - Cindy - who brokered the deal, stepped in and cancelled them and we are now going with another company, Quite a big chunk of cash on that deposit.
I'm def getting good at spending hubby's 401(K) money, that's for sure. Chris, the owner of the concrete company who is going to be doing the pad for the barn, is a sweetheart. It's going to be expensive, but he sees our vision for the land, and is going to be grading it soon and doing some extra stuff for us like terracing part of it. That'll be in the New Year.
Then we also made plans with our plumber-to-be, Nick, who is another smashing guy out to help us in any way he can.
They are all local people, and seem to share our values, so the connections were pretty awesome. We end up staying talking for ages, and they are busy folks so their phones keep pinging ... and we end up keeping on talking ...
The little dog hasn't shown up since that one day, but the big bag of dog food that we left over there in the shed, keeps getting dragged outside, so either she is doing it or we're feeding something else in the neighbourhood.
Hubby has been trying to find the markers for where the neighbour's property and ours merge down near their barn, as their fencing doesn't encompass all that's theirs. Hubby met them the other day, he said they're a nice young couple. They aren't moved in yet, but I'm hoping that when they do, the young guy will help Mark find the borders and then they can fence it together.
Today is misty and cool, but we went back over anyway, and Mark actually walked down to the creek to take pictures and video for me, since I cannot get close enough yet. It'll be awhile, as he has to clear some of the weeds around the edge, and then build me a boardwalk out and down to it. Takes time and money, and just not the most important thing right now, so I'll make do with the pics and just hearing the creek's distant rippling.
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