Monthly Archives: September 2014

Close Up View of the Footings

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The Footings Are In!

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Excavating at Shop Location Finished

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Beauty at Sunset

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Trench for Electrical Wiring Dug

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8 New Trees For the Shepherd’s Place

I told one of the contractors the other day that the place looks a bit like a war zone with all the excavating going on. He said the beast comes before the beauty. But in the midst of all the … Continue reading

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Concrete Starts to Be Poured on Thursday, the 25th

The concrete contractor has now laid the wood and framework for the concrete “footings,” and on Thursday, they will begin pouring concrete. They have been cutting a bunch of rebar, which will go into the concrete. This is just the … Continue reading

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Water, Electric, and Phone Lines Going into the Shepherd’s Place

During the last two days, our excavation guy has dug out a six foot ditch over 250 feet long. Then the water guy put in a water pipe running from the new well to the lodge. Then they buried the … Continue reading

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North View of the Lodge

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The Newest Addition at The Shepherd’s Place

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Excavating for First Building Finished on Friday – Ready for Concrete This Coming Week

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Sketch of future Shop

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Bucking Up Wood For Next Year

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The Creek at the Shepherd’s Place

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Trees For Lumber

Several trees had to come down in order to make room for the house and shop. A man with a portable saw mill will be coming to the land in October and cutting these into lumber for us.

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Shepherd’s Place Trailer

This is the 22 foot long second hand trailer we recently bought to use on the land. We’ll use it this winter while the carpenter crew is building the house and shop.

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The View From Our Future Lodge

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A Big Day! The Well Went In

Today, our well driller drilled the well. He hit water at 200 feet. Suddenly a lot is happening on our land.

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Preparing the Land for the New Shop

Worked with Dave marking the trees that will be removed where our shop is going to go. Excavating for shop begins tomorrow. We also stacked about a cord of wood. Whew!

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Breaking Ground at the Shepherd’s Place

On September 16, we officially broke ground for The Shepherd’s Place. We found a great sub-contractor who is doing the excavating.

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