No updates on the house, but we did go to the lot today and got Rocky to at least walk in the river. The bank of the river drops 4-5 feet from the flat part, but there’s a little path, probably courtesy of some deer, that makes it easy to get down to the water.

Once you’re in the river, it’s a nice view:

We also started collecting rocks. We’re not exactly sure where these will end up, but we’ll need them for the path to river, the firepit, and they’ll be useful for landscaping right around the house. An advantage to the rocky soil is that we’ll have hundreds of nice rocks to use once they start digging for the foundation and finishing the grading. Make a trip to home depot and see how much a pallet of rocks costs, then stop laughing that I’m starting to pile them up. This also conjured up memories of “harvesting” rocks from the woods as a kid and bringing back carts full of rocks for my 10 cent/rock payday.

Also, we started thinking through how we’ll make a (walkable) path down to the river. There is a clearing now, but it’s way too steep, so we’re going to make some sort of step and switchback path.

We’re also going to build a firepit down here, as we have a nice chunk of flat ground (I’d say about 75′) before it starts to go uphill. The river is pretty loud down here, and we own the entire hill, so it’s about as private as you can get.