We are so sad to see all of the land around us being developed into 13 new houses. Our view of the mountains will soon me obstructed by houses. Our freedom to roam the empty field and the kids ability to built forts on the dirt hills will be gone. Not to mention our four-wheeler sledding in the winter. We have actually loved not having neighbors behind or to the side of us and we are really hoping the ones that move in will be nice and maybe have kids our kids' age. I guess we will have to just wait and see...
Anyway, when they started selling the lots and developing the land, we contacted the developer and asked to purchase a 12-13 ft by 140 ft strip of property along our lot. We had been using this space anyway to park our trailers so we decided we had better actually own it before our new neighbors come along and make us move our trailers. We were really happy when the developer sold us this parcel. But then the work began. Rather than a bunch of weeds, we decided to gravel the area and make it an official RV pad. One of Russell's co-workers owns a Bobcat so he came over and helped us dig the dirt and lay the gravel. The kids had a blast helping Dad. They were actually really good helpers and had their shovels and rakes all ready to dig the dirt. Their favorite part though was probably riding and driving the Skidster.
Look at that smile on Colby's face! Ever since they have started building and developing the land around us Colby has been determined that when he grows up, he is going to be a "builder." I told him that was a great goal. Being able to "drive" the skidster just made that career even better for him.
Our friends were getting rid of their railroad tie retaining wall so we asked them if we could have their railroad ties to line our new driveway. They said if we could pull them out and haul them to our house, they were ours. We got around 25 ties from them which saved us probably $400! We were so grateful.
The rock we put in had a sandy base with lime and other things in it so once it gets wet, it will harden similar to concrete. The guy that sold it to us said this would prevent any weeds from growing in the rock. We were sold when he said no weeds. So we are hoping we will have no more weeds next spring! And here is the finished picture of our new driveway/RV pad. I think it turned out really nice.
The driveway runs about 100 feet back and then the remaining 30 ft or so we are going to turn into a big garden next year. We are planning on planting raspberry and blackberry bushes back there too. There is always some project to work on in the yard but a big garden will be so nice next year.
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