Spring is here and plans are being drawn

Our path has gone a strange green/brown colour and apparently this is called "grass." It seems like so long ago that we saw grass, well 5 months to be exact. Anyway, it was pretty warm (+15C) for a few days and now the snow is beginning to melt rapidly, although it will be a while before we see the lawn. Having said that, it is 0 degrees C and raining today, and it could even snow again but it is unlikely to settle. My snowboarding days are over for this year.

Hopefully the snow on our land will melt soon so that we can start clearing out some of the brush and try and figure out where the house, drive etc. will go. We have paid for our first blueprints to be drawn up and when they are finalised we can apply for planning permission, get a tree cutting permit etc. and start preparing the land- hopefully in a few weeks time.

I have bought a machete in order to clear away the brush but we also have a petrol brush cutter with a steel blade. Tom has a chainsaw that I will borrow, or I might buy our own. I am a hoping that we can use the trees we fell to make floor boards as we know a man with a saw mill who can do this for us. However, the boards might have to dry out for a year unless we get them kiln dried. We could probably make do with a sub-floor for a while anyway.