4th of July

Earlier in the week I picked up the deck for the mower from the repair shop and got it reattached and tested. It's in pretty good shape for being 33 years old.

Yesterday, I spent most of the day down at Pine Grove. I widened some of the existing trails, made a few new ones, and trimmed some branches from a few Cedars.

Remember that pool of water in the creek bed that I found? Well, according to the number of fresh deer tracks that I saw, they are also taking advantage of the new trails.

I also hooked up about 5 or 6 dead fall trees and towed them up and out of the woods. I'm going to send a text message to our West neighbor and let him know they are there and he can have them for firewood if he wants them.

Towards the end of the day, the steering on the Bolens Lawn Tractor went bonkers. Upon closer inspection, a weld had broken loose so only the left wheel was operational.

I managed to get it loaded back up on the truck, so this week I can remove the wheel and weld the linkage bar.

On the return drive home, I noticed a lot of people heading down to the Ozarks for the 4th of July weekend.

Have a happy and safe holiday weekend!

Down payment made!

We made the down payment on 6-acres of undeveloped land that sits about 1.5 hours from our house. The clear property deed should be ours within the next four months as we have arranged a payment plan for the remaining balance. Excited!

Land purchase moving forward

Great news!

After exchanging a lot of emails with the owner of the land parcel, he's agreed to let us pay him 50% down and then the rest in four equal payments. This will allow us to take full ownership of the land within 4 months, which will be perfect as the camping season for 2011 will be starting up shortly after.

We're no doubt very happy right now as it means that our long-term plans can finally begin to move forward. Stay tuned for more!