Should I say Happy Anniversary??

If I waited about another month, it would be exactly one year since I visited this ole blog. How distracted from it have I been...A lot has happened over the past year..mainly the progression of the house. Flagstone was completed where the deck was and the hole for the pool was finally started. Digging a hole approx. 5 feet deep  proved to be a time consuming, body aching process! We started building a retaining wall out of railway ties to hold back the dirt away from where the pool will be.. Let me backtrack a little bit. The pool is a 20 foot above ground pool which as you know will require level ground to be put up. Well no where on our land is there any place that is even close to level. So major digging was needed to make an area 22 feet round flat. What we have now is an above ground pool that has its north wall level with the ground..so more or less an inground pool but the south wall is on ground...if that makes sense. When it is completely installed, a deck will be built around it..about 4 ft wide made out of plywood and sloping slightly back into the pool. The surface will be painted with that granite rock they have on the market so its not slippery but its slope will hopefully catch splashed water and guide it back into the pool.. Since we are on well water with a very low water supply, the water will need to be trucked in to fill it. The more I can keep, the better off we will be..:)

The construction of the pool area stopped in August to begin the deconstruction finally of this old house! As much as I was looking forward to the process, I actually think now it was the end I was envisioning and not the road it would take to get there.  An absolutely incredible mess everywhere with piles of old lumber, siding, insulation, nails and whatever else we tore off..oh, and windows and doors! Not much was left except for the original timbers inside the walls before we could begin the re-construction. Below are a few pictures of its de-construction and the finished flagstone...:)