Post 27- Before, and After.

I've just found all the pictures (that didn't make it onto the blog) from last year and have been going through them, and it really is remarkable to see how much progress we've made.  It really feels like it's going very slowly to me, but that's probably just because I'm impatient for it to be done.  When you get a chance to look at "before and after" it's pretty enlightening, and you can really gauge how much you've actually done, and how much you didn't do.

I'm also going to post up a "sequential pix", from date before purchase to current.

Yesterday morning, when I got home from work, there was a lovely mist sitting over the whole mountain.  I went around and took a bunch of pictures of the flowers out there, and I may put some of those up here too if they're especially nice.

Without further ado, here are pictures!

1- The Mudpit.  Septic is installed, slab is poured, and walls are put up at this point, but no roof yet.  This would put it around mid to late April of last year.

2.  Hay and seed.  I leveled those giant ruts you see above (by hand, I might add), spread seed around the whole yard, and covered it up with hay.

3.  A beautiful yard!  I've tried to take these pictures from the same angle so you can get a good "apples to apples" comparison.

4.  Here's that yard this morning.

I think it looks pretty good.  Here are a few other pix from this morning as well, in no particular order:

Neat vine flower, don't know what kind, but pretty :)

Wild Persimmons!  I have many.  

How many, you ask?  More than this many... (shown is about 1/8th of 1 tree, I have 2 older persimmon trees).

Here's an interesting factoid: Deer love persimmons.  Apparently, when they fall, they ferment where they lay.  Then, deer come by and get liquored up on persimmon shots.    I have it on good authority (although haven't witnessed it myself) that the deer are hilarious when they get drunk off the persimmons.  I'm hoping to have some hilarious footage to back that up, once the persimmons hit about 60 proof.

Pretty flowers (or weeds, depending on your view.  I think they're pretty.)

Here are a few of the house, this is a good picture of the driveway, with some house pix to follow:


 

 And, here are a couple of the mountain.  The top one is kind of behind the fruit grove, the bottom one is just to the right of the house, looking north.