Valentine's Day!

The kids went to memaw's house yesterday for a Valentine's Day party. Sandra and the kids will be spending a little more time after Friday with memaw. They will be moving into memaw's home this weekend and staying there until school is out. I will continue to work on our place in Alabama. Hopefully work will pick up and we will have the money we need to get things set up so they can come down in a couple months.



Sandra finished Carrie's new dress. Carrie picked this one out and wants to wear it to church. I think she wants to be Laura Ingles.

I'm legal!

I received my new Alabama Builder's License today. Just one more step in making our move. I'm still waiting for my business registrations. I transfered my driver's license last week when I was there. This is the first time I've ever lived in another state. There are a lot of things to think about when moving out of state, it's not as simple as just changing your address. I am planning another trip down in the next 2 weeks to do some more work. I can't believe the weather in Alabama, sure beats this Michigan weather, especially since I'm going to be roofing a house tomorrow.

Timber!!

Can you say "Tim-ber"! We cut a few more trees down today, and spent the better half of the day cleaning up the mess we made yesterday. It's amazing how fast you can cut them down and cut them up, but you spend as much time cleaning them up and burning brush. We made some good progress today, but still going to take a little more time than expected. It will be easier to spend more time working on it once I am permanantly moved. I met the sister of the lady that lives in the trailor in these pictures. Nice lady, but her sister in sick and not doing well.

Bob & Mike



Pictures taken this morning, you can see her trailor now!





This is after the clean up.

Making Some Progress!

Well, we started trimming some trees today. We have a long way to go. I think at this rate I'll probably be at this for a couple of weeks. I have about 2000 feet of tree line to clear. The first 500 feet is probably the worst part, the rest isn't that bad. I'm just excited to be here working on it. I met Tony, from the electric company, here today and he gave me a good idea what we have to do to get power up to the property. We have a couple of choices, but either way the trees on the property line have to go.

Gettin' Ready!





This was before we started, my driveway is the treeline.




This is part of the driveway that has been cleared.




The small ones are the toughest!!



View from the drive about half way up.



After we cut about the first 100 feet or so.





Dinner! Oh how I love a buffet!

Just another Sunday!

Today Carrie woke up with pink eye. Of course, she is the worst one when it comes to taking her medicine. Sandra put eye drops in her eyes last night anticipating that she had pink eye, but not after Carrie cried for 20 minutes about having to get eye drops in her eyes. She wouldn't let me take her picture last night so I took one this morning.



So we didn't go to church or to a family birthday party. Instead my wife and Carrie worked on a new sewing project for her. Carrie calls it her "Little House on the Prairie" dress.



Cody went outside today to play since the temperature actually was survivable. He's going to miss the snow when we move to Alabama, but I won't!



Cody and I went to see Cole wrestle at Annapolis High School yesterday. He won 4 out of 5 matches. His school won the tournament. My batteries decided to die and I couldn't get any better pics.




Tommorrow I leave at 5:00 am for Alabama. My cousin Mike is going to help me work on our property. I am pretty excited! I can not wait to move! I'll take lots of pics and post them as I go.