In 2007 Carson and I decided to make the place on the corner our home, it was a daunting task to undertake, but my dad always said that my "mom could make a home out of a chicken house" (acutally I think the home he refers to had rabbits raised in it). So I thought with a lot of elbow grease and hard work, we could make this place a home. (and it actually had birds hatched in it as Bob raised birds, and before we started on the house the pigeons had made a home there).
To make my mark and claim the space before much was done other than hauling off trash and cutting weeds, gathering iron to be recycled, etc, I had Carson build me a berm, and I hauled every rock I had here at the house down there to frame it.........the funny thing being that most of the rocks came from there as Bob always brought me rocks, and he could tell me what kind of rock it was and where it came from, that man knew his rocks!
Some rocks came from our travels through Wy, Colo, and Idaho. And some came from Joyce and Dave's in Minn., and many came from Carson bringing them home to me from job sites, it was funny to watch them pull up to the house in the service truck and throw out 5 rocks and drive away!
This is during the work in progress and before all the plants grew
My 24 week pregnant daughter, kt, came home at the end of May 2008 to help...she wasn't allowed to move any rocks tho!
kt here now, adding a few notes...I am helping my mom get this blog off the ground and running. She is always talking about what her and dad are doing 'down at the other house', and I encouraged her to start a blog to document this long journey and so we could all keep up to date!
I set up the blog for her and right now, I have the job of adding the pictures, while mom writes the text! But since I have the login and password...I still may chime in every now and then! ;)
I just wanted to say that I am way proud of my parents and have so enjoyed watching how God is blessing their 'dream' into a reality.
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