Timber!

This is really quick because Dennis and I leave today to visit our most beloved of sons, Joel, and his wife, Mikaela, in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Hollywood. I need to download some Kindle books before we leave, as well as throw some clothes in a suitcase. (I truly hate packing. Too many decisions and things to remember! Dennis has it down to a science, with a three column check off list.)

 

Yesterday, even as we met with Thomas Mast, our builder, others began cutting trees and chipping small branches. For the first distance, we must follow the existing driveway, which has grown up over the decades. Where we had choices, Dennis and Thomas carefully wound around trees worth saving. Total length: close to 1000 feet. Yeah. Takes my breath away also.

 

We'll save some wood to use in our decorative fireplace. The house is so tight that we won't use a fireplace for axillary heat. Wood we don't use will help stabilize the driveway.

 

Sunday Dennis and Eric Kauffman (sp?) spent hours looking for morals (sp!!!). They didn't find any, so might look again after a rain.

 

The driveway might take about two weeks. It's about three until the foundation can be dug. Mast's engineer needs to work up Dennis' (final) plans, the footprint needs to be approved by the city, and Mast needs to sit with his subcontractors and put a bid together.

 

None of it seems real . . .perhaps when the foundation becomes concrete?

 

Oh, and last week I met a six-year-old neighbor. I asked if he liked trucks, because there would soon be huge ones going past his house to work on our driveway. He ran and got a spade and a child-sized shovel and offered them to me to use while digging the driveway. Great joy!

Susan