How exciting! We took stakes and twine up to the homesite, along with our floor plan, and laid out the footprint of our home (as best as we could). It was a good thing. After laying it out according to our initial decision, we then decided to rotate it slightly, as well as moving it about 10 feet to the north.

This isn't as easy as it sounds.

The hexagonal living room was the easiest part. But from there, getting the angles right was difficult, at best. When we decided to rotate the house, it got very warped, and it took us most of the next morning to get it right again. But we think we're very pleased now.

The only sadness is that Loretta realized that once the house is built, we will will no longer (ever) have the view of the rocks from the top meadow. However, we'll be including windows in the basement so we can still see the rocks from underneath.

(As always, click on the picture to get a larger picture that you can see better)

Saturday morning fog (slideshow)	Our 'roof' between Wes's tent and the patio collected huge amounts of water, sagged, and pulled the other canopies out of shape. It took a couple of hours to fix it all back again.	Our new ATV is loaded and ready to go to the homesite.
We lay out the house footprint with twine and stakes (slideshow)	Grass finds a way to sprout in the small cracks in the rocks	We found new Indian mortars. We have learned these wereprobably left by the Yokut Indians, who lived here in the foothills up to the mid-1850's. (slideshow)
Winter river pictures (slideshow)	Loretta and Coco at Cattle Crossing	Rob makes a new cabinet (slideshow)

Links to other photo pages:

2006
Camp Repairs5    Grading the Road    Finish the Road    Clear Homesite Circle    Start Hydraulic Ripper Installation    Waterfalls & Rainbows    Chain Saw Loretta    Easter 2006   

2005
New ATV-New Year2005    Home Layout     Kyle Comes to Camp     Loretta Kills Road Weeds     Ryan Visits     Starting Counter Top     Finishing Cabinet     Easter 2005     Wesley's Spring Break     We meet the Architect     Finishing the Tree House     Our First Fire     Memorial Day 2005     Water Witching     Preparing the Well Site     Grading the Well Site     Digging the well     Our New Tractor     Labor Day 2005     Rusty comes to Camp     Smoothing the Road     Our own Water     Fire and Rain     Tractor Maintenance     Customize Tractor     New Backhoe     Thanksgiving 2005    Changing Oils     Solar Chargers & Toothbar    Rainy New Year Weekend   

2004
Three Rivers Home Page     Animal Friends     Then and Now     First Pictures     Rattlesnake Campout     Easter 2004     Building the Road     South Camp Construction     Building Decks     Finishing Decks     The Stair Master     Done at South Camp     Labor Day 2004     Leapin' Lizards     Tracking Bear and Deer     Securing the Camp     Our First Rain     Loretta's Family visits     Coco and the Boardwalk         Start the Treehouse     Frame the Treehouse