God’s beauty is limitless
We have an entire week to spend at the property! So much to do, so little time! 🙂
Well, we knew the impending delivery of the cabin would be on Friday so we thought to mow on Thursday and stay busy until the big event.
First thing on the agenda??? MOW. I walked down to the barn and got Wile E. Spent most of the day mowing the plateau. Mowing is actually very relaxing as weird as that sounds. I enjoy it. The heat ain’t no fun though.
While mowing I located a rather large egg. Not sure where or what it came from. Al took it to the area the previous eggs were located. Not sure if it was possible for it to even hatch at this point but, I hopefully helped it if it was. Sometimes that’s all you can do. I also found a box turtle. Left it alone.
Dogs, as always, were happy to hang out with us.
On Friday as expected, the log trucks arrived and were up the road literally blocking a lane of traffic while the contractor set up a plan to strategically get them to the property. It had been raining and was suppose to continue intermittently throughout the day. My stomach was in knots! As we feared, the trucks refused to drive up the gravel road to our farm. So, what did they do? We spoke with Betty (she owns a very small grocery store up the road) and she mentioned unloading at the local quarry. Contractor and Al drove to the quarry and they graciously offered a huge area where we could unload the trucks. This was about seven miles from the farm. Tractor trailers were unloaded. Al took his truck and trailer along with the graders truck and trailer and they both began to shuttle pieces and pallets of our cabin to the property. Pokey would then unload the pallets from the trailers. This continued throughout the day until night fall. All that was left was the extremely heavy beams/equipment.
It was a very stressful situation and I did not like knowing half of our cabin was sitting in some quarry parking lot. Someone had definitely dropped the ball.
The next day our contractor was able to locate and hire additional help and obtained a Skid Steer to help unload and push heavier loads up the driveway. The process was less stressful (Al was not helping this go ’round) and move a lot more quickly. By the end of the day all parts and pieces of our cabin were on the plateau. Prior to them unloading all the materials I was able to mow the area really well. I knew it would be awhile before I could even get near it with my tractor.
We also took a trip to town (Sneedville) to obtain our Tennessee tags and speak with the power company on obtaining power to the cabin. While there, we stopped and visited the local Walmart and purchased some flowers. I wanted to improve the look of the driveway so I worked on a small fence located between the big barn and small barn.
There were many cookouts but less sitting by the fire. It was HOT. And, I am not going to pretend I wasn’t uncomfortable at times!
I can think of nothing better to put things into perspective then a glowing sunset. All that stress just rolls away. God’s beauty is limitless.
