Anniversary

I can't believe it's been almost a year since we got flooded and displaced.  At the end of last May, our home and small farm were flooded and we have been without a home and living in temporary places since then.  As mentioned in my previous posts, after thinking about it we could not bring ourselves to go back to live on our old property due to the emotional trauma that we had experienced during the flood.  We still love that property A LOT and still wish we could move back but we just couldn't do it.  With that said, we finally purchased another piece of land in the same general area.  And this time it's high and dry!  It's a beautiful piece of property and we will gradually start our farm back up again.

This is our new property, it's still full of trees, tall grass and brushes, and vegetation.

We started clearing the land yesterday.  And no, we are not doing all the clearing ourselves.  Our small tractor would probably take forever to do the job so we hired it out.

This track hoe is a beast!  It's actually quite fun to watch it work.  It pulls all these big trees from out of the ground like it's nothing.

The land clearing guys came early yesterday and started working on clearing the land.  They were making great progress.

Future home site

Future site for the pond.  The reason of having a pond is two-fold.  1. Naturally there are some low spots on this property where water pools up when it rains.  So by digging a pond we would have a place for the water to run off to naturally.  And 2. We are planning on stocking the pond with fish, which then will provide us with some fun family fishing and some fish to eat.  I see some good ole' Fish Fry in the near future!