Marking the house

The photo above shows where our property is. The ridge is called Mt Baldy, as seen from the west (looking east out of town). There are 3 high spots on the ridge, each at about 1500' elevation; the high point on the left of the ridge is about where our parcel is (it is actually about the same elevation as the high point on the right, just further away). This photo is taken from a corner I will drive through every day going home from work.

Today we (Becky Patrick and Katie) went out and staked out the corners of the house and garage in the clearing that James has been clearing out. (James was elsewhere, helping to teach a logging course, a subject he is becoming skilled at!) We discovered that a huge slash pile of debris and branches is centered on our future front hall, and the location for the garage hasn't been cleared far enough, so there is a huge hemlock tree standing in the middle of the future garage. We also discovered we haven't cleared far enough to the south, so our future deck is still covered with trees. It was lots of fun, however, marking out boundaries and imagining "here is our future porch" and "here is where the kitchen will be". We had both dogs with us (Tobi and Keeper), who both appropriately christened the home site, as dogs are wont to do.