Things are starting to wind down on this years project.

Much was accomplished this past couple days up at the ranch. The shop building was back filled around the foundation. This might look flat but it actually is shaped in a slight vee and drops straight to the intermittent creek that lays between where the house is going to be and shop building.




This side of the building will drain either toward the back side of the building. (First picture) or drain hooking around away from the from the front of the building and then to the intermittent creek.






Or just away from the fill material we spread here. Sort of there in the grassy area it breaks to the creek. All this to say we do have darn good drainage.



Pat the guy with the equipment stock piled Ellen and I huge hill of top soil for around the house when we build it.





The building crew (I sort of helped) did get the tar paper on the roof in between rain squalls.



John Landers has a local laborer working for him. His name is Joseph and a great kid. He is a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. His is a hard worker and a good learner. But there is no future there for him at Smiths Prairie. Other than it costs him very little to live there at his uncles ranch.



He takes a joke very well so when he cut a piece of tar paper off about twenty inches and it floated to the ground. I went over and made a big deal of not wasting my valuable building materials and stewardship. I rolled it up and placed it on the burn pile. I carried them the last roll of tar paper and they started to unroll it. It got less and less and then came with in fourteen inches of making it. So I had to get the piece off the burn pile and hand it up. So thanks Dave at Kuna Lumber for sending us just the right amount of tar paper.

When the day was done I was done. I came down with the flu, I think the grandkids had - had it and boom I went down. My voice was shot, I just was done. My logger, excavator, friend was done also. I had him trim up about another 40 yards of materials up there at the 'pit'. He is just going to stock pile it there in case we need it in the future. So he pulled out his machinery.



The excavator first, then came back for the crawler, then got his back hoe. His is busy from dawn to dark from the time the snow is gone until it comes back. He has not had a moment of recession. He had another septic system to put in and I think did a clearance or a new home about three miles away from our place so we well be getting new 'neighbors'. This summer he has put in four septic systems I know of. He is licensed and very good at it.