Driveway Update

Driveway Update

Hello everyone!! Phase one of the driveway was completed on Saturday. We now have a road and a clearing to the Lake. The Lake is about 125' down. In one of the pictures you can see the clearing. The lake is just below. We now can drive to the site. There still needs allot of work to complete the project but they gave us a great start. The honey bees are still doing great. I just weighed the honey I took off the Russian hive and I'm shocked to say 64 lbs of honey. I can't believe the amount of honey taken from just one hive and only a month's work. I would dare say that this is going to be the best year for the bees since I've been working with them. In one of the pictures shows 1 of 14 frames taken off full of capped honey.

Lot's of Progress

Patti & I checked to see what they accomplished in one day. It appears to be about 300 ft of driveway completed. We are very happy with his quality of work and how quick he gets the job done. The drive way will continue into the wooded area and will turn around by the house. I also checked the bees and the Italian bees seemed to be agitated by something. It has been raining allot lately and it was kind of clear at the time I took this picture. I haven't taken any honey out of there hive yet because I took about 40 lbs from the Russian hive. I'll have better totals later. I took some time to go fishing today and caught this nice Large mouth Bass. I caught it on my frog plug after my second cast. My first cast he took a hit on the lure but missed. I managed to catch him anyways. More work will be done on the driveway tomorrow. Hopefully he will get alot of work done and get phase one completed soon. Keep looking for further updates.

Nothing Runs like a Deere

I bet you can tell I'm happy by my smile. I just couldn't wait to try out this bulldozer myself.

We Now Have A Driveway

The excavator started today. Jim Ploof and his crew from Ploof Excavating started building our driveway. It was pouring out most of the day but they started putting gravel in for fill, and will be cutting down some trees. They will only be working a few day's to complete a small portion of the project. They will come at a later date when we get the construction loan to finish the work. Here are a few of today's pictures of this morning. It rained so much we didn't stay so we don't have the afternoon work completed.

Log Home Update

As of today I believe we have all estimates for the home except the plumber. We gave a set of plans to a plumber that we met from John Hutchins the now official contractor. Patti & I signed John on yesterday. This plumber Ron's Plumbing is doing the log home that John is working on now in Brandon, Vt. We have estimates for the kitchen & two baths. The bank will be notified today that we are very close to getting all the estimates we will need for the construction loan. The driveway should be started sometime after Wednesday this week. Jim Ploof contacted us and said he will be working on his father in Law's home this week and will start our job after that.

Log Home update

We now have the preliminary plans. We showed the plans to some of our friends and we got some good ideas. Posting of the plans will be soon. We also have a Crosby sign up marking our land. We still do not have a driveway. We are still waiting for a estimate from a plumber and the foundation people. Wink Forbes! We took a week off and went camping in the Adirondacks so it's time to get motivated. Tonight we are meeting with Kate/Lincoln Logs to go over the plans. We also marked the elevations/Pitch slope of the Log Home site land. The size of the home is 44 x 32 and the back of the house measured One foot above grade. The front of the house measured 8/ 1/2 feet below grade. This is why we will have a walk out basement. We will have more information later this evening. I checked the bees yesterday and they are doing great!! The Russian hive has a surplus of I would guess around 50lbs of honey. My small top Super 10 frame, is full of capped honey. I ordered some new supplies so I can replace the supers on the hive. I moved one small super from the other hive which did not have any honey stored in it. When I harvest the honey I'll have some pictures for you.