The Journey Begins...

A lot happened in the first year...after breaking out the driveway last summer, and having the tree's cleared we focused on getting an area for a parking pad up on the street. Having suffered through the winter struggling to find a parking place we were ready for a change. You'll notice that on the left side of the picture we used a lot of treated logs as a retaining wall. In the grassy berm right behind it, there was a huge section of an oak tree that had been cut down and left to rot; at the same time we had the area for the parking pad cleared we had the log dragged up to the street. However, a couple of sections rolled down into the yard ( you see them there) and the guy never came back to lift them out as he promised to so, there they sat for a couple of years. We paid someone else to cut the log on the street into biscuits, and then we split them ourselves with an ax and a wedge. We did things the hard way in the beginning. Notice the wood fence panel? Well, behind that was the most delapitated tin shed you'd ever want to see. We kept it because that was all the storage we had. We moved from a 3 bedroom, 2 car garage house in Anahiem, to this small one bedroom cabin with no garage so, we had to use any storage we could find.