One day we will live here:
Right now, it looks like this:
Here I am in the kitchen, washing dishes:
And there is Stephen sitting on the couch or in his recliner watching tv in the living room.
It's fun to think about it. It's fun to make lists and furnish it in my mind. It isn't fun to be patient and to not have it right now. But there are so many pieces to fall into place. So while we wait for jobs and plans to shake out for the next few months, we spend time clearing our "one day front lawn" of the hideous ground cover known as Yaupon. And it IS hideous. Covers everything, grows many feet underground, and is just a general nuisance. I am thankful it's not thorny or poisonous to the touch, though!
Yaupon looks like this:
Here is a before picture of the area shown above where I am washing dishes in the kitchen. See those two trees on the left? That's where I'm standing in the other picture. Lots of pulling, chainsawing, carrying away. (adding other pic again so you don't have to scroll back and forth!) Can't get them to line up, though! :-/
It probably seems a like a little bit of a waste of time to do all this clearing when it could just grow back. We won't be starting on this house for at least a year. But the plan is to keep it under control with at least monthly visits so that we can start to have some grass grow in.
I'm going to try to identify that taped off picture a little better and post in a minute.
We have lots of plans between now and when construction begins. Plans to buy or rent another home in another city, get jobs and come out on the weekends to cultivate this property. Regardless of when this tape becomes that little yellow cottage, though, as long as we have this each time we drive out there, we're happy. :)
