okie boarder's house

[Okie Boarder]

They've also updated the Google satellite view so it actually shows our house on the property now.

[Salty87]

I haven't checked in on this since your slab was poured I think. Pretty cool to see it pretty much done now. Very nice!

With satellite updated the tax man will be coming for ya, lol.

[Okie Boarder]

Thanks, yeah it's changed a lot. The county assessor actually showed up in June, IIRC. He actually measured and updated the property information then, but they didn't kick it into the new assessed value until the first of the year. I actually just got my notification of taxable value, etc., at the end of last week.

[Okie Boarder]

Another update We've been working on a lot of little things that are hard to see in pictures, but slowly making progress on a variety of items for finishing and settling in. In addition, we've done quite a bit on getting the garden area going, as well as trimming and cleaning some of the wooded areas right behind the garage.

Got this shot of a beautiful sunrise yesterday morning on my way into work. This is about 10 miles from our house where I get on the interstate.



Finally got a chance to burn. This was two of the 3 piles we had from all the cleanup we've been doing.



Got some sod put in on this slope...we were having too much washout and erosion, so needed to do something about it.



I managed to get my wife to actually operate a tractor. Of course her buddy had to join her...he was going nuts until we let him get up there with her.

[Okie Boarder]

Seedlings are doing well for the garden. I planted 60 tomato plants.



Garden area is shaping up...got all the good soil tilled in and getting ready to plant the warm weather crops in the next couple weeks. You can also see our ever growing stockpile of firewood and the composting area in this pic.



Lots of beautiful redbuds on the property, along with natural wildflowers and wild plums.

[Okie Boarder]

Getting the taters started.

[Okie Boarder]

Initial spread of the good soil.



Got some chicken manure from our friends, for the compost. I never thought I'd be so excited about chicken poop....lol



This was the soil I had delivered to till in. 5 year old horse manure compost...very good dirt.



It was quite a load...15 yards.

[Okie Boarder]

The beginnings of our composting area. I'm planning to have 3 bins like this, all together.



Spring has sprung...actually got some decent results from the bulbs we planted in the fall.



The never ending wood pile and stacking effort...LOL. We've managed to find a really good source for wood through our younger son's friend. His dad has several different properties within 15 miles of us that has runs cattle on. He is constantly having areas cleared for more pasture, so we has piles of pushed over trees all over for us to cut. He has all kinds of walnut, pecan and oak.

[tg0824SSVGG]

Wow - changed so much! You will have to do something to keep the deer out of your garden. Trust me. Only so many can succumb to lead poisoning.