Farver Acres: Fireplace (And my New Toy)

The focus this week is on the fireplace and continuing the hardwood floor. The Amish team has split in half working on both. All of the dozens of stainless steel chimney pieces have been put together and installed, all the way thru the roof. That part is all done. They are now working on preparing for the stone. The stone will start going on tomorrow. Now the master bedroom, office and loft area hardwood is done, they are working on the balcony and will move to the hallway next, leaving the great room for last after the fireplace is done.

We spent the weekend putting the new tractor and attachments to good use. We were able to catch up on a bunch of projects, but still plenty more to go. See the pictures below. The only project we don't seem to have pictures of was a pretty good sized one and that was digging shale out of the hillside down below and fixing a washed out culvert. That put both the hoe and the bucket to good use!

Preparing for the days work!

Cleaning the ditch behind the house so it will drain better.

Smoothing out the areas where we trenched the electric lines months ago.

Spreading gravel in front of the doors to keep the mud down being tracked into the house.

Man...all this work....got it dirty, had to wash it off in between jobs....

Back to work, the storm we had a month ago that knocked our power out for 8 days, picked up the "hunting shack" on the back food plot and placed it upside down in the stream.

"She thinks my tractors sexy...."

The hunting shack all back into position again, even used the bucket to level out the ground better than it was before.

Digging a drainage ditch to divert water from washing out one of the culverts.

And finally, by mid-afternoon on Sunday, mowed the back of the pond dam. It is steeper than these pictures make it look. It looks sooooo much better after having not been mowed for 2 years. There were trees 10 feet tall growing back there, no problem for the new equipment!