Week 1: begin the begin

On Thursday, July 10th, we managed to tear ourselves away from work just long enough to meet up and capture the beginnings of the beginning.

Everything must go!

We had mixed feelings about taking down a tree, even a pine tree. Knowing that one of our (soon-to-be) neighbors had just spent several months repairing extensive damage to her roof after it managed to break the fall of not one, but two pine trees, however, was enough to convince us.

Pine tree, we hardly knew ye.

We’d gotten there just in time for the de-stumping.

Stump in.

Stump out.

This land is our land…

…from Shades Crest Ro-oad…to about 200 feet in from Shades Crest Road…Everybody! In March, just after meeting with seller David Adderhold to draw up contracts, we paid a celebratory visit to our (pending) land.

(Kil) Roy was here.

The front yard: view of 1133 from Shades Crest Road.

The back yard: view of 1133 facing Shades Crest Road.

The shed and the pine tree. (Little did they know the grisly fate that await them.)

And, just a little more than 3 months later, another celebratory visit on closing day!

My, how it's grown! (The weeds were taller than Liane.)

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