Backhoe Time!

So one of our neighbors got a backhoe for a week and he told us he would help clear some of our land and see is we can dig a hole in the creek bed till we find water. So we got a bunch of clearing done, all the big piles of brush are no longer an eyesore so that is awesome. I even drove that huge machine for an hour or so while he took a break. It was so much fun. If I was in the city with that machine, I would have torn up so much, lol, but luckily for everyone else's sake I was out here in the mountains with nothing to destroy. After all that which was a full day Friday, on Saturday we started on the creek. Now the creek bed has 2 Huge Ass holes in it with no water yet, we are 10-15 feet down. We Have been busy for the last few days on top of all of that, We went out to the ranches and cut a cord and 1/2 of wood and loaded up the truck then I went to work and the kids came home and worked on fire wood all day. We are worn out. Back to the grind today on the cabin.

These are all me driving that beast. It was so much fun

This is the giant hole we dug

This is the really weird grey clay we found at the bottom of the hole

Greenhouse is Done...Bring on the veggies

So we finished putting the panels up on the greenhouse today and let me tell you, it wasn't easy. We had to fight the wind and rain but it is up. So tomorrow we are back to work on the cabin. We got some dirt moved up by the cabin and we are hoping it makes the process go a little easier for us. Just need about 30 times more dirt but some is better than none most of the time. Yes I am a glass half empty kind of person sometimes.
Here are some pics of the finished greenhouse, It ended up being about 14ft tall because we made the rock wall 2 1/2 feet high and it is 10 x 12. Its not very big but it will do for now.

The Greenhouse is going up

So we stopped working on the cabin for a couple of days to get the greenhouse put together. We realized that the cabin walls couldn't keep going up until we got the greenhouse together because we wouldn't be able to get between the walls. We have got the frame put together, now its time for the poly carbonate plastic walls. Yay! Then Back to cabin building. We are hoping to have the first three rooms built in the next 2 weeks.