Happy Belated Easter! It's been an eventful time around here so I'm definitely behind on the blog these days!
Jim had his knee surgery on the 16th and everything went really well. He has hardly felt much pain and hasn't even been on Advil for days. He goes back to the doctor on Thursday to get the stitches out. He's been taking it slow but after a couple of days of not doing much, he was getting a bit stir-crazy! A nearby church has wide aisles and no kneelers so we were able to go to Holy Thursday Mass as well as the Easter Vigil.
On Easter Sunday, we went for a walk on the property. It was a beautiful day and it was just nice to be there. Afterwards, we went into Saratoga and watched the movie, Draft Day. It was really good and so fun to see it all revolve around the Cleveland Browns!
Monday afternoon was beautiful - about 70 degrees - so Jim spent quite a bit of time at the property. He got the trimmer going and attacked some of the briars on the edges of the property to expose more of the baby pine trees growing. Especially when compared to what we dealt with on our property in Ohio, there is very little undergrowth or briars because it is so heavily wooded. But there are a few on the fringes.
After spending a little time with the trimmer, look how good it looks. Now all those little pine trees can really start growing!
After the trimming, Jim got out the surveying equipment again. He wanted to just get a rough footprint down to see how much further he needs to dig. Everything looks really good - besides cutting in the area for the staircase on the far wall, things are in really good shape.
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| Jim with the marking tool - ready to go! |
If you look really close at this picture, you can see some of our orange paint lines marking off the rough footprint of the carriage house.
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