And by the afternoon, it looked like this
Back in July it looked more like this
And further back in March, I don't believe we were even thinking of a cabin yet
It was raining Thursday so the excavators couldn't begin work, but while I was running, about a half mile past the property towards Marathon, a truck passed with me a dozer on the bed. I wondered if it might be for us.
Sure enough, they had left a dozer and an excavator just off the driveway. Sarah and I were about to put some freecycled spruce trees in, when I heard a diesel engine come to life and the clatter of a tracked vehicle working its way up the driveway. John Murdoch felt bad for not being able to work on the driveway, so he showed up to clear stumps and start to scrape the site. He worked for maybe 3 or 3.5 hours and boy did it transform the clearing. This thing was a beast, and the operator was a surgeon. Unfortunately, this clip is probably the least impressive 60 seconds of what he did today, but you get the idea.
And the size of this thing! It was hard for us to get our perspective right, we didn't realize how huge it was until he left and we could get closer
He even did a good job of stacking firewood that I hadn't gotten to yet. Sarah did notice that it certainly made a mess of things. She took this beautiful picture in the morning when we first got there
And took this one after the work had been done.
It's hard to believe this is actually happening.
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