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!!