Bush and Tree Removal

We have a tremendous amount of vegetation on the property, some of it is in poor health, some in a bad spot in the yard, and there are a few we just do not like!

Roger's truck is a great way to take out small trees. This 8' Juniper didn't stand a chance.

And why stop there, when you can drag it down the street and back to the burn pile!

We also had quite a few juniper bushes along the front driveway. We were dreading this little chore as a section much smaller than this had taken all day to remove.
But Roger once again came to the rescue and found a much easier solution. What would have taken us several days to do, took this backhoe 15 minutes...

The house is coming along nicely, as is the yard and orchard too. Kori actually just sold our first fruit crop (apricots) from the orchard last saturday! The plums and peaches should be next up the harvest list.

Changes so far

We have done a lot of work so far, so I will get everyone caught up on the work that has been done.

First I will start on the south side of the house. There is a big bay window that the ro0f barely covered, and a gas fireplace bumpout just on the left edge of the photo.

We extended the roof down another 8 inches around the entire house to cover the bay window, and now an exterior door resides where the fireplace used to be.

This is a good view of the new roof and what the south side looks like with new siding and the new door.

Now lets move on to the new living room space. This is the room we put the new exterior door in and also stuck a few windows in the west wall. That really light the place up! We will be putting the fireplace we took out back in the room between the 2 new windows. The first picture is how the living room used to look before we showed up!

So far we have replaced 8 windows, inserted 5 new ones, moved the front door, added a new exterior door and put up new siding on the house. Hopefully we will be ready to paint in the next week or so.

The new house

At the begining of June, Kori and I bought a new house. Well actually, a new "old" house. This 1920's farmhouse is our new project for who knows how long. This is the real estate ad picture that sold us lol.

The house sits on 2.3 acres of land. Which came with 4-5 outbuildings(I don't know if the chicken shed really qualifies as an outbuilding), around 100 fruit trees of all types, 80 rose bushes, 40+ pine trees and a ton of other landscaping. Oh yeah, and one giant silo.

The outside was in pretty bad shape, weeds 2-3 feet high, shrubs, trees and bushes had been neglected for several years, the pine needles have never been raked up.. the list goes on and on. We have our work cut out for us for quite a while.


Now on to the house...

This is our quality living/dining room. This is probably the best room in the house, which is saying a lot! We have big plans for our new place and the remodeling is moving along quickly. We will be putting up some new pictures as we change up the place!

Wooot for our first post on our first blog!