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| This is the temporary water supply that we setup. I used my Dad's 450 gallon tank and built a stand out of spare lumber that was lying around. |
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| I plumbed over the ground to water the Blueberries, Blackberries, Fig and persimmon tress. |
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| I setup batter boards and used a $25 laser square from HD to get things nice and straight. I then sprayed lines on the ground to begin digging. |
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| This is the north side of the barn area. Notice the beehive off to the left! |
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| Mason was helping out today. He's currently keeping the pickup from rolling into the work area. |
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| Another view from the front of the barn area. |
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| This is a bad panorama of the area. |
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| Blurry Picture! I'm using the tractor with a box blade to remove the top soil. |
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| Two passes. It looks like it's working! |
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| Things are getting a little dark. We finished for the day. |
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| This was the start of our dirt pile. Later christened Mt. Stockton. |
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| I found a trespasser! He was running around the barn area. |
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| I setup a light and that allowed me to keep working thru the evening. |
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| Here's what it looked like the next day. |
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| Another view. |
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| Mt. Stockton is growing! Maybe it's a volcano? |
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| So I ran into a small problem. There's rock only a few inches below the top soil. |
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| You can see the rock extends through a large area of the barn. |
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| Note the beehives in the background. |
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| I setup strings to find where the posts (4" pipe) wold be located. |
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| Alyson asked that I put a toilet in the barn. Really? She says she doesn't want to walk to the house to pee. I told her that I don't. :-) |
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| Another shot |
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| I needed to dig beams for the barn foundation. The walls have to sit on something. So, I rented an excavator. |
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| This thing is FUN! BTW- If you need to rip out a lot of stumps this is by far the fastest and most economical method. |
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| Started to remove some loose rock. |
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| Here I am digging the front of the barn. I'm really just scraping the rock and removing what comes loose. It took forever. |
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| I worked on leveling things up a bit more. It turns out some of the beams needed to go down about 4 feet! |
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| Different view. |
