Matthew and I have been reminded many times over the last few weeks that we really live out in the country now. Last Friday morning, while Matthew was taking his Professional Engineer exam, I discovered that we no longer had any water. After a lengthy cell phone discussion with my dad (including sending photos via text), we couldn't figure out what was wrong with the well or pump and decided that I needed to call in a repair man. I ended up not going to work and waiting until 6 o'clock at night before the repair guys finally showed up! It turned out to be a bad wire and a half hour later (and lots of $$) they had us up and running. Matthew buried the new wire the next day and everything has worked alright since.
Since we no longer have cable and refuse to pay for satellite service, we have been trying to tune in to the local tv channels. A purchased antenna from Best Buy allowed us to get a few channels (sometimes) but Matthew decided to try building a new antenna (plans found online) to put in the attic. This new antenna combined with the old one seems to work pretty well.
Two weeks ago we finally stopped by a neighbor's house to introduce ourselves and find out about the loggers that had cleared their land. They gave us the guy's phone number and half an hour later he was walking around our property figuring out where to put his equipment. It took another week for him to actually move the equipment to our house (from another neighbor's) and more than a week to do the logging. Everything is quite a mess and it will be a while before we can get it cleaned up. We ended up clearing about 2.5 acres for horse pasture, fruit trees, and my garden. Here are some photos from the work:
In case you have never been up close to logging equipment, it is huge! Here Matthew stands next to some of it.
Day one of logging. They ended up getting about four truck loads of trees total.
Here the cutting machine is taking the trees from around the horses' shed.
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