Rick and Ellen's sort of up date history on what we are up to.....

As we sort of close one chapter of our lives being gainfully employeed to that of retirement. I really wanted to do a blog and sort of just do some writing and news now and then rather than the mass e-mail. Seems more friendly, more cup of coffee warm and fuzzy.

God Bless!
Rick and Ellen

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Lumber has arrived

Dave Browning a lifetime friend - well almost a life time friend. We met when I was twelve and I think he was thirteen and we were deer hunting. He and his wife started Kuna Lumber. They have been good friends over the years. So when it came time to order lumber ..... Here he is taking the warps off the lumber package.



Hey Dave you did not leave any instructions.

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This is a road that we put in that goes around to the orchard.

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This is a entrance to the property now. We put this in several years ago. My brother Bill asked that we find a easier way of getting access like a cattle guard or a metal gate rather than the old hard to open, harder to close wire gates. I think the neighbors backhoe got our sign when they were clean out the snow on winter. With all the new road road topping we should not hazard getting stuck in the 'wet season'. Although we never really seem to sink down it was more just throwing mud and gummy stuff.

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The old way was to continue up a hill and get on a old logging road and winding around through trees and things. Then continue back on sort of a loop. It worked well but there were several things that did not. One was two huge snow drifts the occurred every year. (Excluding the drought years of course.) The other thing, once you got off the old logging road there had never been any decomposed granite applied to those roads or trails and so there was mud and a chance you just were not going any where if it was wet.

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