working up the hill

working up the hill
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Uphill with the plate packer.

Spreading

Spreading
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Late night gravel spreading.

First load of gravel on the driveway

First load of gravel on the driveway
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Gravel down, Chrissy packing it in. 1 am thursday night.

Widening the driveway

Widening the driveway
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Just keeps getting wider and wider.

Driveway widening

Driveway widening
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We had to widen our driveway to make sure it will accomodate concrete trucks and by bringing it up a few feet, we lessened the grade too.

Log skidding

Log skidding
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Got them all stacked eventually. 42 total in the one stack.

Bringing the logs up to thier summer home

Bringing the logs up to thier summer home
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The process of bringing the logs up to the pile where they will finish drying and wait for milling.

Chrissy giving a fine size reference

Chrissy giving a fine size reference
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Had to skid all the logs so that we could pick them up with the bucket on the backhoe and stack them off in the background in that pile. Top right.

Beetle

Beetle
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I am still unclear about what kind of beetle this guy is. Anyone know?

Driveway progress

Driveway progress
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Filling in the old driveway bed with new dirt and raising the whole thing up a few feet.

Panorama, Tanana River

Panorama, Tanana River
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Just stitched together some photos from out in the middle of the main channel of the Tanana.

boot reference

boot reference
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Wolf tracks on sandbar on the Tanana

Backside Slough, Tanana River

Backside Slough, Tanana River
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Out on the Tanana River.

Outhouse, almost finished

Outhouse, almost finished
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Phase one almost complete.

Digging the outhouse hole

Digging the outhouse hole
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Phase one of comfortable bathroom experiences.

Pasque flowers

Pasque flowers
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Found a secret hillside totally full of wild pasque flowers.

10 lines, 30 hooks, 1 burbot

10 lines, 30 hooks, 1 burbot
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1 big burbot that fried up to feed 3 people. Yum.

black bear

black bear
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Lots of black bear down on the Tanana.

8 eggs in 24 hours from 6 chickens

8 eggs in 24 hours from 6 chickens
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Chickens in overdrive

logpile

logpile
Originally uploaded by justinmaple

Some of the 45 logs we have saved for milling siding later this year

Trouble

Ball joint takes a dump on itself
Originally uploaded by justinmaple

The painful view from the inside.

extra traction

Ball joint takes a dump on itself
Originally uploaded by justinmaple

Ball joint failure

Ball joint takes a dump on itself, originally uploaded by justinmaple.

Some car trouble on Memorial Day.

Flickr

I have been adding photos to flickr with more regularity than I have been here.
You can take a look here
-Justin