It has been a busy month!  After doing 12hrs of work with the excavator, it broke a track and rested here for a week before we were able to get a repair crew up. They took out two links (with a grinder, welder and a 50,000 psi punch and all was well.

These are before and after photos of the area in front of the garage and shop.  While we loved the 45 year old 60′ fir (will be used as firewood and mulch) we wanted more room to park and turn around, and I wanted a bit more room and a retaining wall beside the shop.

The stump and trunk of the tree can be seen in the background.  A friend brought over his diesel truck and pulled it down with no problem.  It is now cut up into 16″ lengths, ready for splitting.

All of this will be cleaned up, leveled and pressure washed in July.

This will be a gate, and a retaining wall on the right.  The dirt ramp to the upper area was also moved back a few feet.  Eventually, I will build stone retaining walls on either side.  Eventually.

We had the excavator pull down this hill of dirt that had been moved off the building site 4 years ago as it was hard to access with the bobcat.  2nd photo shows it pulled down and accessible.

Also had the excavator pull forward the crushed rock to make it easier to access with the Bobcat. The dead tree is being cut up for firewood.

We had to build a new road for the excavator so it could pound in holes for the fence poles.  I will cover it in dirt and it will become some valuable level ground that will go back to nature in the years ahead.  July will see cross supports on the end posts, and after the gates and fences near the house are done, the deer fence will hopefully be erected.  On va voir.

The garden is doing well, and the bees love the aliums and the irises.

Still working on cabinet doors. The oiled ones are ready to install and the ones on the right (uppers) are ready to oil.

Next update will be in very late June.