They're Coming Down!

I'm a tree hugger. I never knew that about myself. I mean, I'm all about nature and trees and leaving it all alone and stuff. But, I REALLY didn't like seeing my trees come down. The process was way more violent than I thought. The whole earth shook when those 80ft trees came toppling down. I had 9 that were marked to come down to open up my view of the river, and now that they're down it looks really great and all - I could only watch him do 2. It made very sad....

The cool thing is - I can't believe it's started! YAY! So, I hired the guy to take down the hard ones, and family and friends are going to help me take down the little ones on top of the hill where the house will go. We're going to do that the weekend after Easter.

Last night was Friday night house planning at Shannon and JoLynn's. Let me just say for the record "I suck at all things electrical!" My job last night was to take the blown up floor plan and add all of the electrical stuff to it. Then I had to make a list for Shannon of how many of each thing I'll need. I must have asked him the same questions 10 times - "so if there is a switch on the other side of the room that controls the same light - that single switch is considered a 2-switch?" "What!!" I finally gave up asking him and started bugging JoLynn cause I felt like she was feeling sorry for me. Hey, the girls gotta stick together!

To top this all off - I called Ameren on Monday to find out about the temporary pole. The lady said they would come out on next Monday. Okay - cool. Pam calls me on Wednesday to say the Cilco guy just called and he's out at the land! Wait! He's not supposed to come until next week. Anyway, it all turned out okay in the end. We found out that there is no transformer there - so they're going to have to install one. Now I'm working with a lady named Susan who is a customer rep for Ameren. She's super nice, but I feel like I'm always saying, huh, uhhh, okay, ah huh, well...I think so... I'm mean it's ridiculous! I have no clue what I'm talking about!

I'm meeting with the log guy on Monday - that'll be more fun I'm sure!!

Panic Phone Calls....

I was scheduled to leave for Washington DC on Wednesday afternoon at 1:00. We had a very sad funeral at the church that morning. One of our volunteers lost her 16 year old to cancer. It was so sad.... so after a very hard morning, as I was getting ready to leave for Indy I get an email from Kevin the Survey guy. He wanted to head out to the land Thursday morning to begin some preliminary work on the survey. So I send a panic email/phone call to Shannon, JoLynn, and Rick. HELP! We arranged that Shannon and Rick would meet Kevin out at the land on Thursday morning in my absence. Whew! So in the car I went - got to Indy, BARELY made our flight and headed to DC. I was finally able to check in via email about 11:00pm Wednesday night and found out that after all of my freak out, Kevin didn't need anyone for this initial visit. SHEESH. Totally taught me a lesson! NO MORE FREAK OUTS!! (yah right!) Thanks friends for being so patient with me!

Landscaping = Awesome

I met with Ryan (Owner of Designer Concepts) today to see the initial design for my landscaping. I just gotta say - WOO HOO! I love it! Seriously guys, he did an amazing job. It's everything I have ever dreamed! He totally honored my desire to keep the natural woodland feel of the property and just added what I needed to enhance it! I can't wait for you to see it!! It's so great! I'm happy dancing about my landscaping. YAY!!!