Building the Road

The first work to be done this spring/summer was to build up our road. Because it is not a county road, we were responsible for anything that needed to be done. Eventually, the road needs to be big enough for fire trucks to come down and turn around (although I hope they never have to!) plus, we wanted the road to be OK for trucks delivering materials, etc. Due to the slope of our lot, we don't really have anywhere to put our logs when they arrive. Since we're going to be paying for the new road, we figure we can use the road and cul-de-sac to put the logs. Being the corporate-types we are, we tried offering "sponsorship" opportunities to everyone we know for the road project. But so far, no takers. I'm sure we could swing a road-naming for anyone interested....

This is what the road down to the cul-de-sac looked like pre-work.

Here's the road after they started building it up.

The cleared out cul-de-sac. The old cul-de-sac was less than half the size of what it was supposed to be.

This is how high they had to build up the cul-de-sac. I'm standing on our property line.



Here's the finished road and cul-de-sac!

Here's the new valley and lake views standing on the finished road. This will be similar to standing on the first floor of the house.